While thinking about my list of Things To Do Before Moving to France today, I remembered a word I learned in my sophomore year Introduction to French Literature class. It's not a word I learned from a vocabulary list, or had seen in a movie or had stumbled upon in one of the books we were reading that semester. Instead, it was written on my French essay in red pen: pêle-mêle. Needless to say, I looked it up as soon as I got home. And what does it mean?
any which way, random, chaotic
Similar English translations include: higgledy-piggledy, helter-skelter, and willy-nilly. Apparently people lacking organizational skills have a knack for rhyming!
