Parler, French, verb, to speak, to say, to converse.
Hmm. Perhaps it is time we exerted sovereignty over our language (er, “tongue”) and began to call our assemblies Talky-talky Houses.
At the time when separate playgrounds for boys and girls were abolished in New South Wales primary schools in pursuance of feminist notions of achieving “equality” of the sexes, my sister was a primary school teacher…