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In Wikipedia articles and article titles, French titles of creative works should be put into English, if the work is well known by its title in English (with redirects from the French title). Examples: The Tales of Hoffmann, an opera by Offenbach; The Marriage of Figaro, a play by Beaumarchais; Sunflowers, a painting by van Gogh. If the work is ...
The lowercase letter p: The French way of writing this character has a half-way ascender as the vertical extension of the descender, which also does not complete the bowl at the bottom. In early Finnish writing, the curve to the bottom was omitted, thus the resulting letter resembled an n with a descender (like ꞃ).
Letter writing leads to the mastery of the technique of good writing. Letter writing can provide an extension of the face-to-face therapeutic encounter. [clarification needed] [13] Since at least a small fee is required, sending a large number of irrelevant letters becomes more expensive (and therefore less likely) than e-mail (spam).
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".
A letter of credence (French: Lettre de créance, [lɛtʁ də kʁeɑ̃s]) is a formal diplomatic letter that designates a diplomat as ambassador to another sovereign state. Commonly known as diplomatic credentials , the letter is addressed from one head of state to another, asking them to give credence ( French : créance ) to the ambassador's ...
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For example, the dead key for the cedilla (which can apply to different letters, such as ț in Romanian) on the old Canadian French IBM ID-058 keyboards was replaced in the primary group with a key that directly types the c-cedilla Ç/ç , since it is the only letter in French with this diacritical mark. The cedilla key (dead letter) is still ...