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  2. Quebec French phonology - Wikipedia

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    Such phenomena are conditioned lexically and regionally. For example, for the word difficile 'difficult', the standard pronunciation [d͡zifisɪl] is found throughout Quebec, but the alternative pronunciations [d͡zifɪsɪl], [d͡zɪfɪsɪl] and [d͡zɪfsɪl] are also used. The phonemes /a/ and /ɑ/ are distinct.

  3. Coteau-du-Lac - Wikipedia

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    Population amounts prior to 1982 are total of Coteau-du-Lac (VL) and Saint-Ignace-du-Coteau-du-Lac (P). Source: Statistics Canada [ 9 ] In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada , Coteau-du-Lac had a population of 7,473 living in 2,928 of its 3,025 total private dwellings, a change of 6.1% from its 2016 population of 7,044 .

  4. Pointe-du-Lac - Wikipedia

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    Pointe-du-Lac (French pronunciation: [pwɛ̃t dy lak]) is one of the six boroughs of the city of Trois-Rivières and a former municipality in Quebec, Canada on the St. Lawrence River. It was founded in 1738 and its current church dates from 1882.

  5. Quebec French lexicon - Wikipedia

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    Dialogue in sitcoms on Quebec television often uses such idioms extensively, which can make certain dialogues rather incomprehensible to French speakers of Europe. Most speakers will use various contractions, omitting certain articles or even changing the pronunciation of certain words, which can be daunting for inexperienced speakers.

  6. Rivière du Lac - Wikipedia

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    The rivière du Lac (English: River of the lake) is a tributary of the west bank of the Montmorency River. This watercourse flows on the north shore of the St. Lawrence River , in the city of Quebec , in the administrative region of Capitale-Nationale , in the province of Quebec , in Canada .

  7. Témiscouata-sur-le-Lac - Wikipedia

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    Témiscouata-sur-le-Lac is situated on the south side of the Saint Lawrence River, at about 260 km from Québec City, and 470 km west of Gaspé.The cities of importance close to Témiscouata-sur-le-Lac are Rivière-du-Loup, at 60 km to the north-west, Trois-Pistoles at 65 km to the north, Rimouski at 110 km north-east, and Edmundston in New Brunswick, at 60 km to the south-west.

  8. Laurentides - Wikipedia

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    The Laurentides (French: [lɔʁɑ̃tid], Canadian French: [lɔʁɑ̃t͡sid] ⓘ) is a region of Quebec.While it is often called the Laurentians in English, the region includes only part of the Laurentian Mountains.

  9. Quebec French syntax - Wikipedia

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    La plupart du monde sont tannés des taxes. (La plupart du monde est tanné des taxes.) Most people are fed up with taxes. The drop of the double negative (a feature observed throughout Francophonie) is accompanied by a change of word order(1), and (2)postcliticisation of direct pronouns (3)along with non-standard liaisons to avoid vowel hiatus: