A.Your middle name is Claude, after the French painter Claude Monet. Your mother was a huge fan. It could have been worse - it was Waterlily for a girl.
Q.What's the hard bit on the end of a shoe lace?
A.The aglet is the small plastic sheath on the end of a shoelace which stops it from unravelling. It derives from the French word aguille, meaning needle.
Q.was sir loin knighted?
A.It is often said that Henry VIII, James I or Charles II knighted their steak. Alas, not true. It's from the French 'sur longe' meaning 'above the loin'.