Étude sur l'argot français ("Study of French slang") was the first publication in book form by the French linguist and author of short stories, Marcel Schwob.
In A Clockwork Orange, Alex's interrogators describe the source of his argot as "subliminal penetration."
Pienaar is a surname of Huguenot origin (originally Pinard from western and central France, meaning "small coin change" and "sort of wine", now Argot French "wine") that is particularly common in South Africa.