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  2. Hyperforeignism - Wikipedia

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    Because the Russian loanword dacha (дача ) looks like it could be German, the pronunciation / ˈ d ɑː x ə /, with a velar fricative, shows an attempt at marking a word as foreign, but with a sound not originally present in the source word. [14] The more common pronunciation is / ˈ d ɑː tʃ ə /, which sounds closer to the original ...

  3. August Neidhardt von Gneisenau - Wikipedia

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    August Wilhelm Antonius Graf [1] Neidhardt von Gneisenau [2] (27 October 1760 – 23 August 1831) was a Prussian field marshal. He was a prominent figure in the reform of the Prussian military and the War of Liberation .

  4. List of French words of Gaulish origin - Wikipedia

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    The Gaulish language, and presumably its many dialects and closely allied sister languages, left a few hundred words in French and many more in nearby Romance languages, i.e. Franco-Provençal (Eastern France and Western Switzerland), Occitan (Southern France), Catalan, Romansch, Gallo-Italic (Northern Italy), and many of the regional languages of northern France and Belgium collectively known ...

  5. Glossary of French words and expressions in English

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    The French term for head waiter (the manager of the service side of a restaurant) is maître d'hôtel (literally "master of the house" or "master of the establishment"); French never uses "d '" stand-alone. Most often used in American English and its usage in the UK is rare. negligée

  6. Cyrillization of French - Wikipedia

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    at the beginning of a word, following a vowel, or rarely for [ɛ] at the end of a word [ø], [œ] eu, œ, œu ё: Villedieu – Вильдьё ё is generally simplified to е in Russian э: Eugène – Эжен Maheu – Маэ at the beginning of a word, or after a vowel [ə], — e – Charles – Шарль e muet: е: De Gaulle – Де ...

  7. Gneisenau - Wikipedia

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    August von Gneisenau (1760–1831), Prussian field marshal; Bruno Neidhardt von Gneisenau (1811–1889), Prussian general; One of the German naval ships named after August von Gneisenau: SMS Gneisenau (1879), iron-hulled three-masted frigate, wrecked in 1900; SMS Gneisenau, World War I armoured cruiser, launched in 1906 and sunk in 1914

  8. This is the right way to pronounce Cannes - AOL

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    The correct way to say the French town includes dropping, well, basically everything: The "c" in the beginning turns into a "k" and the "s" at the end is silent. Some say that "a" becomes an "e ...

  9. French phonology - Wikipedia

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    French phonology is the sound system of French.This article discusses mainly the phonology of all the varieties of Standard French.Notable phonological features include the uvular r present in some accents, nasal vowels, and three processes affecting word-final sounds: