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Dear editor:

Come, come, now, Mr. Philippe Bourgeois. Your survey source regarding the article in the Tribune, June 18 issue, More French needed in local stores? was not entirely accurate.

I have had personal experience while shopping at local grocery stores and other retail outlets such as the Dollarama or Rossy's where articles are displayed with the French identity showing and I have on occasion turned some of them to reveal the English side.

It is, apparently, the responsibility of the pertinent company's supervisors or managers to instruct their employees to be sensitive to the respective language needs of our bilingual culture.

I am French, both maternally and paternally and have had many reproaches about expressing myself in English. I enjoy the English language and have a great respect for the eloquence of well-spoken, articulate French. However, I am not fluent in the application of the French language and will continue free-spirited to express myself without guarded speech as I have done all my long life.

Respect for one another is more important than a language barrier.

Carmel M. Roy

Campbellton