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In French, baguette means “long stick”. The bread name comes from this meaning, as it is a long, thin kind of bread :) We also call drum sticks “baguette”, as well as anything wooden, long and thin, like a conductor baton or a magic wand!

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Please stop doing this.

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Baguette à selfie.

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We can use “perche à selfie”, perche being a very long baton, itself being a big stick!

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Unfortunately people use the English word for it which sucks because this is correct and way better.

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Yes in French we call it “Baguette de Pain” so Long stick of bread. And baguette magique is magical long stick.

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You guys know there are more than just sticks out there right?

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Yes, there are baguettes too.

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“Baguette de Pain”

expected this to be a stick of pain.

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I know that breadfull.

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anything wooden, long and thin

So you’re saying that Jacob Rees-Mogg is considered a baguette in France?

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So basically, if you want to eat a baguette in Paris, make sure you’re in the right store.

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Ceci n’est pas une baguette

(While I was playing around with the Bing image generator, it gave me this, which I thought was too amazing not to share):

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How bout quarterstaff?

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They call it a baguette royale because of the metric system

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Now I’m hungry for quarters with cheese.

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I’d call it a “baton”, because it’s bigger

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Baguette un quartre?

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