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Cake day: July 1st, 2023

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  • I was about to type “dire du fromage!”, but in checking the translation I found out the French do not use “say cheese” for a photograph. Instead they say the French word for marmoset.

    Say Marmoset!

    “When someone’s taking a picture of French people, they don’t yell out “Say Cheese”. No, they don’t even yell out “Say fromage“, as you might have suspected. But they do often yell out “Ouistiti”.

    What’s a ouistiti? Well, apparently it’s a marmoset, which is apparently a small monkey with an outlandish haircut. In fact, that’s a marmoset in the picture above. The idea is that the word ouistiti, like the English word cheese, makes your mouth naturally smile”