Is it apéro o'clock yet? Paris metro station renaming, part of an April Fools joke. Photo by JACQUES DEMARTHON / AFP Certain French linguists use up a lot of angst on the many anglicisms that creep ...
The 2019 MBA exam season is about to begin soon and all the top B-Schools have opened their registration dates for the MBA aspirants. And before it gets chaotic for you to manage your exam preparation ...
William of Normandy's conquest in 1066 changed England and its language. The Anglo-Saxon King Harold lost, deeply affecting language evolution. French influenced English significantly. Around 40% of ...
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"Sexting" should now be referred to as textopornographie, according to last month's announcement by L'Académie française, the venerable language authority that has ruled the French dictionary for ...
Whether its mixing up body parts or failing to get their tongues around certain sounds, English-speakers do have trouble with certain French phrases. we asked French writer Gwendoline Gauicheau to ...
In 2011-12 Damien Hall received funding from the Leverhulme Trust for a project on French linguistics; however, the research reported here predates that funding. When a society changes, its language ...
Almost 950 years ago, a conquest led by William, Duke of Normandy, invaded not only England but also the language of the “English”. In the Battle of Hastings, Anglo-Saxon King Harold was defeated, and ...