concept
Quelle heure est-il?
quelle heure est-il
also: келер этиль
French for 'what time is it?', rendered by the Russian speaker as a garbled phonetic Cyrillic approximation; a stock comic touch mocking provincial pretensions to fashionable French.
Reading notes
- Rogues Despite Themselves §25 quelle heure est-il?
French for 'what time is it?', garbled by the Russian speaker into approximate phonetic Cyrillic ('келер этиль'); a stock comic touch mocking provincial pretensions to fashionable French among the young ladies.