la douche = the shower

‘la douche’ = to be pronounced ‘dooshh’

“As seen on the ABC’s new inventors”
http://www.showersaver.com.au/
http://www.abc.net.au/tv/newinventors/txt/s1305219.htm

la bourse = the stock-exchange

"Wall Street shares tumble to 1997 levels"
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/business/story/0,28124,25098678-5017999,00.html
The New-York stock exchange (la bourse de New-York) is back to 1997 levels.

1997... Bill Clinton was inaugurated for his 2nd term, Tony Blair was elected, Princess Diana and Mother Theresa of Calcutta passed away, Steve Jobs returned to Apple...
In tennis Pete Sampras won Wimbledon and the Australian Open, Pat Rafter won the US open and Kuerten from Brazil won Roland-Garros. Australie won the ashes in England. The Spice girls were at the top, Radiohead released 'OK Computer' (now a classic).
And my $27 weekly Sydney CityRail train ticket probably cost $15 in 1997... (happy to be confirmed on this one).

piscine = swimming-pool

Today I was at the swimming-pool when I received an email from Rob who suggested we make an iPhone app with "learn a French word a day".

So, et voila, here it is.

After all even Newsweek wrote it the other day in --> http://www.newsweek.com/id/183664
"Have you noticed that Barack Obama sounds more like the president of France every day?"
So in that case we may as well start to learn the language if we want to understand him.

Speaking of swimming-pool, the movie 'La Piscine' = 'the swimming-pool' is really worth seeing. --> http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0324133/