Big gee I'm afraid your wrong the motto of the french navy is "To the water it is the Hour"....Translate.!!!!Hi Leonard Job,
the motto of the French Navy is, or was, "Honneur, Valeur, Patrie, Discipline". C'est ca! When we sank their fleet during WW2, the motto was changed to 'merde aux les Anglaises!' Vrai!
The word 'plonk' that we use for cheap wine comes from the French 'vin blanc', which to the ears of a WW1 English soldier would have sound like v'blonk, courtesy of the French habit of losing consonants in their pronunciation. Sante!
Le Grand Gee
Though it comes from Shropshire, I've always know "to go round the Wreakin" as to take the long or "scenic" route from A to B.