The front-page story on the free newspaper that someone handed me as I got on the Métro was about a court case that just started. Two families of twenty-year-old girls are filing suit because their daughters were switched at birth. With such an unlikely occurrence, why wouldn’t Zipf’s Law strike over and over?
- le procès: trial, lawsuit, (divorce) proceedings
- intervertir: to switch, invert, exchange
- la maternité: maternity hospital; motherhood, maternity; pregnancy
- épuisant: exhausting
- afficher: put up; post; display; exhibit; reveal
- le sourire: smile
- le sien: his, hers, its
- les siens: one’s loved ones
- accoucher: to have a baby, to be in labor
- accoucher de: to struggle to produce
- accoucher d’un garçon: to give birth to/to have a boy
- une enquête: investigation; inquiry; (sondage d’opinion) survey
- la jaunisse: jaundice
- la couveuse: incubator
Zipf's Law 