Do I have a dud?

I have an 8 gig touch that does none of this business.
I have a new 32 g 3rd generation.
No matter what - even after a restore - even with no apps other than apple's - it defaults to french on google and on bing.
This makes the thing unusable to me. Yes, the language is English. Yes, I've reset it and totally restored it. No, I'm not in France - southern US to be specific.
Thanks for helping me understand what is going on.

Yep - I live in a smallish town, so there are only 2 other public wifi spots I know of - and at both, I get google and bing in English.
At home, I get google in French - and I get bing in spanish. . .
Not a huge deal, but I am OCD enough it really bothers me :P
Theories? Help? BTW, when I go to geolocation places online, it shows that my ip at home is in the US - only 20 miles from where I live.
Sigh.

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