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Name calling
The middle name. It was the use of our full name or first and middle name by our parents that was the tip off that some rule had been broken, some boundry breached. When we heard that, we knew our goose was cooked. It had to include the middle name though, that's what middle names were for, a signal that you were in trouble. Otherwise, they were never used. Odd really, my parents were not in any way French, but the angrier they got the more formal they became! The parents were not spare the rod types. No face slapping.