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  2. Commonly misspelled words in French - Wikipedia

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    Misspellings in French are a subset of errors in French orthography. Many errors are caused by homonyms; for example, French contains hundreds of words ending with IPA [εn] written as -ène, -en, -enne or -aine. [1] Many French words end with silent consonants, lettres muettes, creating, in effect, homonyms.

  3. French orthography - Wikipedia

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    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.

  4. French honorifics - Wikipedia

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    French honorifics are based on the wide use of Madame for women and Monsieur for men. Social. Monsieur" (M.) for a man, The plural is Messieurs (MM. for short).

  5. Mama and papa - Wikipedia

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    Mama and papa use speech sounds that are among the easiest to produce: bilabial consonants like /m/, /p/, and /b/, and the open vowel /a/.They are, therefore, often among the first word-like sounds made by babbling babies (babble words), and parents tend to associate the first sound babies make with themselves and to employ them subsequently as part of their baby-talk lexicon.

  6. Maman (sculpture) - Wikipedia

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    The title is the familiar French word for Mother (akin to Mummy or Mommy). The sculpture was created in 1999 by Bourgeois as a part of her inaugural commission of The Unilever Series (2000), in the Turbine Hall at London's Tate Modern. [1] This original was created in steel, with an edition of six subsequent castings in bronze. [2]

  7. French grammar - Wikipedia

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    French grammar is the set of rules ... -x or -z in the singular are left unchanged in the plural in both pronunciation and spelling ... (at least since 1960 ...

  8. Mother - Wikipedia

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    Mom and mommy are used in the United States, Canada, South Africa, and parts of the West Midlands including Birmingham in the United Kingdom. Inay, Nanay, Mama, Ma, Mom, Mommy are used in the Philippines; Mum and mummy and mama are used in the United Kingdom, Canada, Singapore, Australia, New Zealand, India, Pakistan, Hong Kong and Ireland.

  9. Glossary of French words and expressions in English

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    out of the ordinary, unusual. In French, it means outraged (for a person) or exaggerated, extravagant, overdone (for a thing, esp. a praise, an actor's style of acting, etc.); in that second meaning, belongs to "literary" style. passé out of fashion. The correct expression in French is passé de mode. Passé means past, passed, or (for a ...