The World in Words 64: Diplomatic insults, click languages, Harry Potter in France, and cucumber season

This week, the nuanced — and sometimes not so nuanced — world of diplomatic insults: we hurl a few your way, courtesy of Hugo Chavez, Hillary Clinton and Winston Churchill. Then, news of languages that include a large amount of tongue clicks: linguists have figured out how to decipher and classify click from clack, as it were. Then, the Norwegian for silly season (it involves cucumbers). Finally, many French fans of Harry Potter novels read the books in English.