French

English

Phonetics

Essai

Try

S-A

Transformation

Conversion

Trans-for-may-shon

Melee

Scrum

Mel-ay

Forchette

Eye gouge

For-shet

Un Touche

A Line out

oon Toush

Le Ballon

The ball

Le bar-lon

Un cuilliere

An ankle tap

Un coo-yieh

Les poteaux

The posts

Lay-poe-toe

Le coup d’envoi

The kick off

Le coo-don-vwa

Un Penalite

A penalty

Un pen-al-ee-tay

L’arbitre

referee

Lar-bi-tr

L’arbitre de touch

Touch judge

Lar-bi-tr-de-toush

La pelouse

Turf (Also the surname of the French captain)

La pur-looz

Le mi-temps

Half time

Le me-tomp

Match nul

A drawn match

Match nool

Un chandelle

A bomb

Un shan-dell (similar to a wen-dell)

Un coup de pied

A kick

Un coo-de-pee-ay

Un placage

A tackle

Un plack-ar-sh

Le troisieme mi-temps

Post match festivities

Le twaz-e-m- me tomp