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A view through a coulee in Alberta, with steep but lower sides, and water in the bottom. Coulee, or coulée (/ ˈ k uː l eɪ / or / ˈ k uː l iː /), [1] is any of various different landforms, all of which are kinds of valleys or drainage zones. The word coulee comes from the Canadian French coulée, from French couler 'to flow'.
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.
Genealogy records of Jean Grou, in French; Timeline of Iroquois War with reference to Jean Grou and "coulee" Grou; Specific Detail of Jean Grou and "coulee" Grou, From Tanguay, VOLUME 1, PAGE 283; Marriage of Jean Grou to Marie-Anne Goyette in 1671; History of Coulee Grou by noted Quebec nationalist historian Lionel Groulx, a descendant of Jean ...
The dam at Grand Coulee would someday be mentioned with the Great Pyramids of Egypt, the Great Wall of China and the Panama Canal as one of humankind's greatest achievements. On June 18, 1934, the ...
St. Marys Bay French (French: français de la Baie Sainte-Marie) is a dialect of Acadian French spoken around St. Marys Bay, Nova Scotia, specifically in the region of Clare, Nova Scotia. While sharing features with other dialects of Acadian French , it differs from these and other varieties of French in its morphology and phonology , [ 1 ] and ...
English name French name Region Nearest town Coordinates Aliso Cove []: Anse d'Aliso Corsica: Morsiglia: Angels' Bay: Baie des Anges Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
A profound change in very late spoken Latin (Vulgar Latin, the forerunner of all the Romance languages) was the restructuring of the vowel system of Classical Latin.Latin had thirteen distinct vowels: ten pure vowels (long and short versions of a, e, i, o, u ), and three diphthongs ( ae, oe, au ). [2]
The word entered American English via Louisiana French in Louisiana and is thought to originate from the Choctaw word bayuk, which means "small stream". [2] After first appearing in the 17th century, the term is found in 18th century accounts and maps, often as bayouc or bayouque, where it was eventually shortened to its current form. [3]