Re: Foreign is foreign, right?

Douglas G. Kilday wrote:

Long ago, a French visitor wondered why we had no hot water. She carefully chose the tap (faucet) labelled "C". That's not consistent
either, sometimes there are the letters H and C, sometimes red and
blue dots, and sometimes you just have to guess.

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What did she think the H was, a barbaric variant of F, or an
abbreviation for "hautement froid" ??

Tworks for gascon: cauda / hresca.
The red/blue seem intuitive enough, though. It's been long since I saw otherwise.
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