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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".
The expression "you're welcome" is bienvenue or ça me fait plaisir in Quebec, though de rien or y'a pas de quoi is also used in Quebec. Note that the expression bonne journée (as opposed to bonjour) is also often used for "goodbye" in Quebec (similar to "Good Day"), which it is not in France (where it is more common to say au revoir or bye).
The expressions ajouter l'insulte à l'injure ("add insult to injury") and sonner une cloche ("ring a bell") are sentencial anglicisms. Academic, colloquial, and pejorative terms are used in Canada to refer to the vernacular. Examples are des "sabirisation" (from sabir, "pidgin"), Franglais, Français québécois, and Canadian French.
En tabarnak or en câlisse can mean "extremely angry". In the movie Bon Cop, Bad Cop, Quebec actor and stand-up comic Patrick Huard's character teaches Colm Feore's how to swear properly. [5] These expressions are found less commonly in literature, but rappers and other singers often use criss and câlice as a rhyme.
Canadian English (CanE, CE, en-CA) [5] encompasses the varieties of English used in Canada. According to the 2016 census , English was the first language of 19.4 million Canadians or 58.1% of the total population; the remainder spoke French (20.8%) or other languages (21.1%). [ 6 ]
Franglais (French: [fʁɑ̃ɡlɛ]) or Frenglish (/ ˈ f r ɛ ŋ ɡ l ɪ ʃ / FRENG-glish) is a French blend that referred first to the overuse of English words by French speakers [1] and later to diglossia or the macaronic mixture of French (français) and English (anglais). [2]
Chartered Professional Accountant (CPA; French: comptable professionnel agréé) is the professional designation which united the three Canadian accounting designations that previously existed: Chartered Accountant , Certified General Accountant ; Certified Management Accountant . [1]
In linguistics, phraseology is the study of set or fixed expressions, such as idioms, phrasal verbs, and other types of multi-word lexical units (often collectively referred to as phrasemes), in which the component parts of the expression take on a meaning more specific than, or otherwise not predictable from, the sum of their meanings when used independently.