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In French, it means "beginning." The English meaning of the word exists only when in the plural form: [faire] ses débuts [sur scène] (to make one's débuts on the stage). The English meaning and usage also extends to sports to denote a player who is making their first appearance for a team or at an event. décolletage a low-cut neckline ...
This hurdle in the creation of new words allows time and space for English neologisms to enter common usage in the French language. In many cases, l'Académie publishes French alternatives or creates French neologisms, however these words often fail to achieve the public traction which, by definition has to have been achieved by the English ...
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 ...
De Morgen originates from a merger in 1978 [3] [4] of two socialist newspapers Vooruit (newspaper) [5] (meaning "Onwards" in English) and Volksgazet (meaning "People's Newspaper" in English). The Vooruit was founded in Ghent by Edward Anseele and appeared the first time on 31 August 1884, just before the foundation of the Belgian Labour Party ...
nom de plume – coined in the 19th century in English, on the pattern of nom de guerre, which is an actual French expression, where "nom de plume" is not. [1] Since the 1970s, [ 2 ] nom de plume is accepted as a valid French expression [ 3 ] even if some authors view it as a calque of pen name .
Part 1 of the "Abbott Elementary" and "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia" crossover aired on Wednesday, Jan. 8, at 8:30 p.m. ET/PT. The second crossover is expected later in 2025, but Season 17 of ...
A couple in Australia had their marriage annulled after the bride said she didn't genuinely consent. The woman said she believed the ceremony was a "prank" being filmed for Instagram.
From December 2008 to December 2012, if you bought shares in companies when Linda B. Bammann joined the board, and sold them when she left, you would have a -62.3 percent return on your investment, compared to a 61.1 percent return from the S&P 500.