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  2. Chanson - Wikipedia

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    ' French song ') is generally any lyric-driven French song. The term is most commonly used in English to refer either to the secular polyphonic French songs of late medieval and Renaissance music or to a specific style of French pop music which emerged in the 1950s and 1960s.

  3. Quebec French lexicon - Wikipedia

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    The word couple is used in standard French as a masculine noun (a couple, married or unmarried), but in Quebec it is also used as a feminine noun in phrases like une couple de semaines (a couple of weeks). This is often thought to be an anglicism, but is in fact a preservation of an archaic French usage.

  4. Glossary of music terminology - Wikipedia

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    with the (col before a masculine noun, colla before a feminine noun); (see next for example) col canto with the singer, see also colla voce col legno with the wood: for bowed strings, strike the strings with the stick of the bow (col legno battuto) or draw the stick across the strings (col legno tratto) col pugno

  5. Glossary of French words and expressions in English

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    a stereotypically effeminate gay man or lesbian (slang, pronounced as written). In French, femme (pronounced 'fam') means "woman." fin de siècle comparable to (but not exactly the same as) turn-of-the-century but with a connotation of decadence, usually applied to the period from 1890 through 1910. In French, it means "end of the century", but ...

  6. Joual - Wikipedia

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    Of the (feminine), from the (feminine), some (feminine), a quantity of (feminine) té, t'es tu es you are Yé Il est He is, it is tsé (tsé là), t'sais tu sais you know je s'ré je serai I will be j'cres, j'cré je crois I believe pantoute pas du tout (de pas en tout) not at all y il he a, a'l'o elle, elle a she, she has ouais or ouin oui

  7. French honorifics - Wikipedia

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    French honorifics are based on the wide use of Madame for women and Monsieur for men. Social. Monsieur" (M.) for a man, The plural is Messieurs (MM. for short).

  8. Canción - Wikipedia

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    Canción ("song") is a popular genre of Latin American music, particularly in Cuba, where many of the compositions originate. [1] Its roots lie in Spanish popular song forms, including tiranas, polos and boleros; also in Italian light operetta, French romanza, and the slow waltz.

  9. Gender neutrality in languages with grammatical gender

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    A very small number of nouns in some languages can be either masculine or feminine. [81] [82] When referring to these mixed-gender nouns, a decision has to be made, based on factors such as meaning, dialect or sometimes even personal preference, whether to use a masculine or feminine pronoun. There are no neutral or mixed-gender singular third ...