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It excludes combinations of words of French origin with words whose origin is a language other than French — e.g., ice cream, sunray, jellyfish, killjoy, lifeguard, and passageway— and English-made combinations of words of French origin — e.g., grapefruit (grape + fruit), layperson (lay + person), mailorder, magpie, marketplace, surrender ...
le scoop, in the context of a news story or as a simile based on that context. While the word is in common use, the Académie française recommends a French synonym, "exclusivité". [2] le selfie. The word was included in French dictionary "Le Petit Robert" in 2015, along with "hashtag". [3] le sandwich; le bulldozer; l'email / le mail
English words of French origin, such as art, competition, force, machine, and table are pronounced according to English rules of phonology, rather than French, and are commonly used by English speakers without any consciousness of their French origin. This article covers French words and phrases that have entered the English lexicon without ...
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Generally, words coming from French often retain a higher register than words of Old English origin, and they are considered by some to be more posh, elaborate, sophisticated, or pretentious. However, there are exceptions: weep , groom and stone (from Old English) occupy a slightly higher register than cry , brush and rock (from French).
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crouton, from the diminutive form of the old French word croust, (later to come into modern French as the word croûte), meaning 'crust'. crown , Anglo-Fr. coroune , from Old Fr. corone , compare Mod. Fr. couronne
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