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lit. "stamp"; a distinctive quality; quality, prestige. café. a coffee shop (also used in French for "coffee"). Café au lait. café au lait. coffee with milk; or a light-brown color. In medicine, it is also used to describe a birthmark that is of a light-brown color (café au lait spot). calque. a copied term/thing.
Ghoti Hook is a 1990s Christian punk band. Ghoti has been used to test speech synthesizers. [ 10] The Speech! allophone -based speech synthesizer software for the BBC Micro was tweaked to pronounce ghoti as fish. [ 11] Examination of the code reveals the string GHOTI used to identify the special case.
Let them eat cake. Jean-Jacques Rousseau (left) who coined the phrase " qu'ils mangent de la brioche " in 1765. In the years following the French Revolution, the quotation became attributed to Marie Antoinette (right), although there is no evidence that she said it. " Let them eat cake " is the traditional translation of the French phrase "Qu ...
Covfefe ( / koʊˈfɛfi / koh-FEH-fee, [ 2] / kəvˈfeɪfeɪ, koʊˈfɛfeɪ / [ 3]) is a word, widely presumed to be a typographical error, that Donald Trump used in a viral tweet when he was President of the United States. It quickly became an Internet meme . Six minutes after midnight ( EDT) on May 31, 2017, Trump tweeted "Despite the ...
José is a predominantly Spanish and Portuguese form of the given name Joseph. While spelled alike, this name is pronounced very differently in each of the two languages: Spanish [xoˈse]; Portuguese [ʒuˈzɛ] (or [ʒoˈzɛ] ). In French, the name José, pronounced [ʒoze] ⓘ, is an old vernacular form of Joseph, which is also in current ...
Blåhaj (stylized BLÅHAJ, Swedish pronunciation: [ˈbloːhaj], lit. 'blue shark'; colloquially anglicised as / ˈblɑːhɑːʒ /, / ˈblɑːhɑː / or / ˈbloʊhaɪ /) is a plush toy manufactured and sold by the Swedish company IKEA. Modeled after a blue shark and made of recycled polyester, the toy has gained prominence on social media as a ...
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.
Amen. Amen ( Hebrew: אָמֵן, ʾāmēn; Ancient Greek: ἀμήν, amḗn; Classical Syriac: ܐܡܝܢ, 'amīn; [ 1] Arabic: آمين, ʾāmīn) is an Abrahamic declaration of affirmation [ 2] which is first found in the Hebrew Bible, and subsequently found in the New Testament. [ 3] It is used in Jewish, Christian, and Muslim practices as a ...