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  2. Verlan - Wikipedia

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    It rests on a long French tradition of transposing syllables of individual words to create slang words. [1]: 50 The word verlan itself is an example of verlan (making it an autological word). It is derived from inverting the sounds of the syllables in l'envers (, "the inverse", frequently used in the sense of "back-to-front"). The first ...

  3. Glossary of French words and expressions in English

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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 from the menu rather than a fixed-price meal.

  4. revenir - to come back/return; revenus - income; reviennent - come back; revient - come back; revirement - turnaround; rez de chaussée - ground floor; reçoit - receives; reçoivent - receive; reçut - received; rhume - cold; richesse - wealth; rien ne se sait - nothing is known; rigueur - rigor; riposter - to retaliate; rire (verb) - to laugh ...

  5. Talk : List of French words and phrases used by English ...

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    Only the AHD lists the word without the accent as the secondary (not preferred) spelling. (AHD shows it hyphenated, the OED does not.) demi-glaze. is a single word in English, but comprised of two French words, demi and glaze. OED lists this, the AHD does not. I confess to being troubled by chauvinism. While I recognize the french word ends in ...

  6. Anadrome - Wikipedia

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    The word redrum (i.e., "red rum") is used this way for murder in the Stephen King novel The Shining (1977) and its film adaptation (1980). [ 11 ] Anadromes exist in other written languages as well, as can be seen, for example, in Spanish orar ↔ raro or French l'ami naturel ("the natural friend") ↔ le rut animal ("the animal rut").

  7. Grave accent - Wikipedia

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    In French, the grave accent on the letters a and u has no effect on pronunciation and just distinguishes homonyms otherwise spelled the same, for example the preposition à ('to/belonging to/towards') from the verb a ('[he/she/it] has') as well as the adverb là ('there') and the feminine definite article la; it is also used in the words déjà ...

  8. Unpaired word - Wikipedia

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    "Unpaired words" at World Wide Words "Absent antonyms" at 2Wheels: The Return; Words with no opposite equivalent, posted by James Briggs on April 2, 2003, at The Phrase Finder; Brev Is the Soul of Wit, Ben Schott, The New York Times, April 19, 2010; Parker, J. H. "The Mystery of The Vanished Positive" in Daily Mail, Annual for Boys and Girls ...

  9. Glossary of ballet - Wikipedia

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    This chassé passé is the (pas) failli. An assemblé (dessus/over) to the opposite corner would reorient the body back to its original position. Failli phrased with arabesque indicates the brushed follow-through of an arabesqued leg from elevated behind to fourth in front as lead-in to a following step.