enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Glossary of French words and expressions in English

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glossary_of_French_words...

    lit. "stamp"; a distinctive quality; quality, prestige. café. a coffee shop (also used in French for "coffee"). Café au lait. café au lait. coffee with milk; or a light-brown color. In medicine, it is also used to describe a birthmark that is of a light-brown color (café au lait spot). calque. a copied term/thing.

  3. Guttural R - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guttural_R

    Guttural R is the phenomenon whereby a rhotic consonant (an "R-like" sound) is produced in the back of the vocal tract (usually with the uvula) rather than in the front portion thereof and thus as a guttural consonant. Speakers of languages with guttural R typically regard guttural and coronal rhotics (throat-back-R and tongue-tip-R) to be ...

  4. French phonology - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_phonology

    Help:IPA/French. v. t. e. French phonology is the sound system of French. This article discusses mainly the phonology of all the varieties of Standard French. Notable phonological features include its uvular r, nasal vowels, and three processes affecting word-final sounds: liaison, a specific instance of sandhi in which word-final consonants ...

  5. Ça plane pour moi - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ça_plane_pour_moi

    "Ça plane pour moi" (French pronunciation: [sa plan puʁ mwa]) is a 1977 song by Belgian musician Plastic Bertrand. [1] The music is also used in the song "Jet Boy, Jet Girl" by Elton Motello. [2] The song has been covered by many artists, though the original recording was the most successful, reaching No. 8 on the UK Singles Chart in mid-1978.

  6. List of most-viewed French music videos on YouTube - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most-viewed_French...

    17. 18. Lartiste feat. Caroliina. 19. 20. Notes. ^ "Zemër" is the second most-viewed Albanian music video on YouTube. ^ "Je m'appelle Funny Bear" is the most-viewed French music video of the 2000s, was the most-viewed French music video until 2014, and became the first French music video to surpass 100 million views in 2012.

  7. Julien Miquel - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julien_Miquel

    Originally from France, Julien Miquel studied biology at University of Toulouse before graduating in 2004 from the French winemaking college Faculté d’Oenologie de Bordeaux. [citation needed] Miquel had an international flying winemaker career from 2004 to 2009, bringing him to some of the most famous wine estates in the world including ...

  8. Hard and soft G - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_and_soft_G

    The sound of a hard g (which often precedes the non-front vowels a o u or a consonant) is usually the voiced velar plosive [ɡ] (as in gain or go) while the sound of a soft g (typically before i , e , or y ) may be a fricative or affricate, depending on the language. In English, the sound of soft g is the affricate / dʒ /, as in general, giant ...

  9. List of onomatopoeias - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_onomatopoeias

    Bark, sound of a dog. Bleat, sound of a sheep. Buzz, sound of bees or insects flying. Chirp, bird call. Chirp, sound made by rubbing together feet or other body parts, e.g. by a cricket or a cicada. Gobble, a turkey call. Growl, low, guttural vocalization produced by predatory animals. Hiss, sound made by a snake.