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A completed game in French. There are two forms of competition Scrabble in French. Scrabble classique, also known as partie libre, is match play, as in the English-language game. Duplicate Scrabble is an alternative form of the game where all players have the same letters and board in front of them, and play against the theoretical top score.
French phrases used by English speakers; Law French; Glossary of fencing, (predominantly from French). Glossary of ballet (predominantly from French) Lists of English loanwords by country or language of origin; List of English words of Gaulish origin; List of English words of Latin origin; List of English Latinates of Germanic origin
Le Roy le veult (/ l ə ˈ r ɔɪ l ə ˌ v ʌ l t /, "The King wills it") or La Reyne le veult (/ l æ ˈ r eɪ n l ə ˌ v ʌ l t /, "The Queen wills it") is a Norman French phrase used in the Parliament of the United Kingdom to signify that a public bill, including a private member's bill, has received royal assent from the monarch. [1]
Fernando Rey, the stage name of Spanish-born actor Fernando Casado D'Arambillet; Gabriel Venance Rey, French general of the French Revolution and Napoleonic Wars; Hans Rey, German cyclist; H. A. Rey and Margret Rey, authors of the Curious George series of children's books; Jacques Rey (born 1942), French politician; Jean-Baptiste Rey (1734-1810 ...
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 ...
Odilon Redon (1840–1916), French painter, print-maker and draftsman; Pierre-Joseph Redouté (1759–1840), Belgian painter and botanist; Anne Redpath (1895–1965), Scottish painter; Paula Rego (1935–2022), Portuguese/English visual artist; István Regős (born 1954), Hungarian painter and artist; Don Reichert (1932–2013), Canadian artist ...
More than 100 letters that never reached the crew of a French warship have been read for the first time since they were sent 265 years ago. Rare ‘treasure box’ of French letters opened and ...
French uses the capital É, because the use of a capital letter alters the meaning of the word (État: a State, as in a country; état: a state of being). It also cannot be shortened as coup as is often the case in English- because this literally means a "hit" in French, but can be used figuratively to mean many more things.