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  2. Glossary of French words and expressions in English

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    à la short for (ellipsis of) à la manière de; in the manner of/in the style of [1]à la carte lit. "on the card, i.e. menu". In restaurants it refers to ordering individual dishes from the menu rather than a fixed-price meal.

  3. extra (franchise) - Wikipedia

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    extra (stylized as extr@) is a language education television programme franchise that was scripted in the format of a Friends-esque sitcom.It was in production from 2002 to 2004, and is mainly marketed to the instructional television market for middle school and high school language classes.

  4. Numbers: The Universal Language - Wikipedia

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    Numbers: The Universal Language (French: L'empire des nombres, lit. 'The Empire of Numbers') is a 1996 illustrated monograph on numbers and their history.Written by the French historian of science Denis Guedj, and published in pocket format by Éditions Gallimard as the 300th volume in their "Découvertes" collection [1] (known as "Abrams Discoveries" in the United States, and "New Horizons ...

  5. Traditional French units of measurement - Wikipedia

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    In Quebec, the surveys in French units were converted using the relationship 1 pied (of the French variety, the same word being used for English feet as well) = 12.789 English inches. [9] This makes the Quebec pied very slightly smaller (about 4 parts in one million) than the pied used in France.

  6. Des chiffres et des lettres - Wikipedia

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    Des chiffres et des lettres (French: [de ʃifʁ e de lɛtʁ]; "Numbers and Letters") is a French television programme which originally aired from 1965 to 2024. It was created by Armand Jammot and tests the numeracy skills and vocabulary of two contestants.

  7. French units of measurement - Wikipedia

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    During the early part of the twentieth century, the French introduced their own units of power – the poncelet, which was defined as being the power required to raise a mass of 100 kg against standard gravity with a velocity of 1 m/s, giving a value of 980.665 W. [16] [17] However, many other European countries defined their units of power ...

  8. Non-numerical words for quantities - Wikipedia

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    The achievement of, a generally positive feat, three times in a game, or another achievement based on the number three [6] Several: 3+ Three or more but not many. Small gross: 120 Ten dozen (10x12) [7] Great hundred: 120 Ten dozen (10x12) or six score (6x20), also known as long-hundred or twelfty [8] [9] None: 0 Zero Lakh: 100,000

  9. 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.