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This article covers French words and phrases that have entered the English lexicon without ever losing their character as Gallicisms: they remain unmistakably "French" to an English speaker. They are most common in written English, where they retain French diacritics and are usually printed in italics. In spoken English, at least some attempt ...
Could non-french speakers please check the spelling of phrases before they add them. Tarquin. M'aider! -- Someone, help me! ("May day!") -- this is highly doubtful etymology. Someone needs to check this, but AFAIK the english word "Mayday" was chosen as a distress codeword because it's easily pronouceable in most languages.
English has been absorbing French words since 1066, it's ridiculous to attempt to list all of them. I tend to agree with Wardog's spelling test; i.e. if a word would be read as French by an English speaker and/or French speaker, then it should be in the list. --Phanmo 20:56, 28 November 2011 (UTC)
English words of French origin can also be distinguished from French words and expressions used by English speakers. Although French is derived mainly from Latin, which accounts for about 60% of English vocabulary either directly or via a Romance language, it includes words from Gaulish and Germanic languages, especially Old Frankish. Since ...
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Please keep this category purged of everything that is not actually an article about a word or phrase. See as example Category:English words . See also: Wiktionary:Category:English terms derived from French
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Franglais (French: [fʁɑ̃ɡlɛ]) or Frenglish (/ ˈ f r ɛ ŋ ɡ l ɪ ʃ / FRENG-glish) is a French blend that referred first to the overuse of English words by French speakers [1] and later to diglossia or the macaronic mixture of French (français) and English (anglais).