Franglais

But at the beginning, it’s really what we call Franglais.

When Johnson was asked in 2021 about Macron's fury over a deal he signed with Australia and the United States that had upended a planned French submarine contract, he responded with mocking use of Franglais to tell France to get a grip and give him a break.

In a report published earlier this year, the Académie warned that the growing usage of English and hybrid “Franglais” terms could have disastrous effects on the French language and create new barriers to communication.

"I loved just hanging with Patrick on the many trips we did. I just loved him. He was a creative genius but in a casual seemingly effortless way, and he was fun and funny in his broken Franglais," wrote Christie Brinkley.

Channeling his inner Winston Churchill, Boris Johnson earned a few headlines recently by addressing his continental “friends” in “Franglais.”