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Lists of pejorative terms for people include: . List of ethnic slurs. List of ethnic slurs and epithets by ethnicity; List of common nouns derived from ethnic group names
French orthography encompasses the spelling and punctuation of the French language.It is based on a combination of phonemic and historical principles. The spelling of words is largely based on the pronunciation of Old French c. 1100 –1200 AD, and has stayed more or less the same since then, despite enormous changes to the pronunciation of the language in the intervening years.
This is the pronunciation key for IPA transcriptions of French on Wikipedia. It provides a set of symbols to represent the pronunciation of French in Wikipedia articles, and example words that illustrate the sounds that correspond to them.
Several subdialects of Savoyard exist that exhibit unique features in terms of phonetics and vocabulary. This includes many words that have to do with the weather: bacan (French: temps mauvais); coussie (French: tempête); royé (French: averse); ni[v]ole (French: nuage); ...and, the environment: clapia, perrier (French: éboulis); égra (French: sorte d'escalier de pierre); balme (French ...
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Code page 863 (CCSID 863) [2] (also known as CP 863, IBM 00863, OEM 863, MS-DOS French Canada [3]) is a code page used under DOS in Canada to write French [4] (mainly in Quebec) although it lacks the letters Æ, æ, Œ, œ, Ÿ and ÿ.
Niçard (Classical orthography), nissart/Niçart (Mistralian orthography, IPA:), niçois (/ n iː ˈ s w ɑː / nee-SWAH, French: ⓘ), or nizzardo (Italian: [nitˈtsardo]) is the dialect that was historically spoken in the city of Nice, in France, and in a few surrounding communes.
IBM has also developed a layout based on the CSA keyboard, called Canadian French IBM ID-445. Apple use this layout as their default French Canadian keyboard since the 90s (Canadian - CSA). ACNOR is an acronym of the former French name (Association canadienne de normalisation) of the CSA Group, [3] a standards organization headquartered in Canada.