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Chacun à son goût

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(idea) by Segnbora-t (9.7 hr) (print)   ?   (I like it!) Fri Jan 21 2000 at 19:26:59

French expression literally translated as "Each has their own taste." Often used as a way of saying you don't agree with someone else's tastes, as in "There's no accounting for tastes" or "De gustibus non est disputandum."

(idea) by Gritchka (2.5 y) (print)   ?   (I like it!) 1 C! Mon Apr 23 2001 at 12:26:44

The first word is normally written chacun, though as it comes from chaque 'each' + un 'one', the spelling chaqu'un might be a correct variant, I don't know*. (Cf. quelqu'un 'someone'.)

The last word is goût 'taste'. The circumflex indicates the ghost of a departed S: the Latin root gust- appears in gusto, gustatory, disgust, and the phrase de gustibus non est disputandum 'there is nothing to be argued about in tastes'.

However, the common expression chacun à son goût is not French.

The French expression for this is chacun son goût, or à chacun son goût: 'to each their taste', rather than 'each to their taste'.

The part of me that wants to request a Title Edit for this has been overruled by the part that wants to show off its knowledge.

* Thanks to parmentier for confirming that it's not.


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coup de foudre coup de grâce De gustibus non est disputandum Flanders and Swann
à bientôt there's no accounting for taste To Each His Own Pure Shores
HP sauce Unicode Indic Scripts tout Parmentier
Latin Disobedient Gustatory Each
disgust argue taste gusto
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