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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 "à la carte" rather than a fixed-price meal "menu".
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Merci is a French word meaning "thank you". Merci may refer to: in music. Merci (Alpha Blondy album), 2002; Merci (Florent Pagny album), 1990; Merci (Magma album), 1984; in other contexts. Merci (candy), a brand of chocolate manufactured by August Storck KG; Merci (company), a Czech laboratory equipment company
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Although double consonant letters appear in the orthographic form of many French words, geminate consonants are relatively rare in the pronunciation of such words. The following cases can be identified. [15] The geminate pronunciation [ʁʁ] is found in the future and conditional forms of the verbs courir ('to run') and mourir ('to die').
Many of these are degenerations in the pronunciation of names that originated in other languages. Sometimes a well-known namesake with the same spelling has a markedly different pronunciation. These are known as heterophonic names or heterophones (unlike heterographs , which are written differently but pronounced the same).
The French word for 'thank you', merci, is also used as in merci vilmal (lit. ' thanks many times ', cf. Standard German's danke vielmals and vielen Dank). Possibly, these words are not direct adoptions from French but survivors of the once more numerous French loanwords in Standard German, many of which have fallen out of use in Germany.
merci (logo) Merci (French for "thank you") is a brand of chocolate candy manufactured by the German company August Storck. [1] [2] Merci is manufactured as bars of different kinds of chocolate with different fillings, such as plain milk chocolate, coffee and cream, hazelnut-almond, hazelnut crème, marzipan, praline-cream, dark cream, and dark mousse. [1]