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2. French orthography - Wikipedia

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   French orthography encompasses the spelling and punctuation of the French language.It is based on a combination of phonemic and historical principles. The spelling of words is largely based on the pronunciation of Old French c. 1100 –1200 AD, and has stayed more or less the same since then, despite enormous changes to the pronunciation of the language in the intervening years.

3. Anglo-Saxon runes - Wikipedia

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   Several famous English examples mix runes and Roman script, or Old English and Latin, on the same object, including the Franks Casket and St Cuthbert's coffin; in the latter, three of the names of the Four Evangelists are given in Latin written in runes, but "LUKAS" is in Roman script. The coffin is also an example of an object created at the ...

4. Reforms of French orthography - Wikipedia

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   The borrowing of connoisseur into English predates this change; the modern French spelling is connaisseur. étois → étais (was) The spelling of some plural words whose singular form ended in D and T was modified to reinsert this mute consonant, so as to bring the plural in morphological alignment with the singular.

5. List of shorthand systems - Wikipedia

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   English: Conen de Prépean Shorthand [16] 1813: Louis Félix Conen de Prépean: French: Coulon de Thévenot Shorthand [17] 1776: Jean Coulon de Thévenot: French: Current Shorthand [18] 1892: Henry Sweet: English: Cursive Shorthand [19] 1889: Hugh Longbourne Callendar: English: Dacomb Shorthand [20] 1934: Beatrice Eliza Dacomb: English: Dement ...

6. Glossary of French words and expressions in English

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   in English, a person who cooks professionally for other people. In French the word means "head" or "chief"; a professional cook is a cuisinier (lit. "cook"), chef-cuisinier referring to a head cook. Also, sous-chef, the second-in-command, directly under the head chef.

7. International Phonetic Alphabet - Wikipedia

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   In 1886, a group of French and English language teachers, led by the French linguist Paul Passy, formed what would be known from 1897 onwards as the International Phonetic Association (in French, l'Association phonétique internationale). [6] The idea of the alphabet had been suggested to Passy by Otto Jespersen.

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9. List of modern literature translated into dead languages

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   Old English: Petres Haran Saga [14] The Tale of Peter Rabbit, The Tale of the Flopsy Bunnies, The Story of a Fierce Bad Rabbit: Beatrix Potter: A. A. Brunn: Fyrnlore Bookmearsing: 2018 Middle English: The Aventures of Alys in Wondyr Lond [13] Alice in Wonderland: Lewis Carroll: Brian S. Lee: Evertype: 2013 Middle English: The litel prynce [1 ...