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In English, eau only exists in words borrowed from French, and so is pronounced similarly in almost all cases (like in plateau, bureau).Exceptions include beauty and words derived from it, where it is pronounced /juː/, bureaucrat where it is pronounced /ə/, bureaucracy where it is pronounced /ɒ/, [4] and (in some contexts) the proper names Beaulieu and Beauchamp (as /juː/ and /iː ...
Eau or EAU may refer to: The French word for water. O (Cirque du Soleil), a water-themed stage production; Eau (trigraph), a trigraph of the Latin script; EAU, the IATA code for the Chippewa Valley Regional Airport in Wisconsin, United States; East Africa University, a private university in Puntland, Somalia
The Sandre service establishes the common water data language of the French national Water Information System (SIE: Système d’information sur l’eau). Sandre is a division of the National Agency of Water and Aquatic Environments (Onema: Office national de l’eau et des milieux aquatiques).
Clearwater Lakes, 2013 image by NASA Earth Observatory. The Lac Wiyâshâkimî (the official name, in French, formerly Lac à l'Eau Claire, a calque of the lake's name, Wiyâšâkamî, in Northern East Cree, changed form of wâšâkamî or wâšekamî in more southerly Cree dialects), [citation needed] also called the Clearwater Lakes in English and Allait Qasigialingat by the Inuit, [3] [a ...
‑eaux is the standard French language plural form of nouns ending in ‑eau, e.g. eau → eaux, château → châteaux, gâteau → gâteaux. In the United States, it often occurs as the ending of Cajun surnames, as well as a replacement for the long "O" (/ oʊ /) sound in some English words as a marker of Cajun, or more broadly Louisiana ...
The original Eau de Cologne is a spirit-citrus perfume launched in Cologne in 1709 by Giovanni Maria Farina (1685–1766), an Italian perfume maker from Santa Maria Maggiore, Valle Vigezzo. In 1708, Farina wrote to his brother Jean Baptiste: "I have found a fragrance that reminds me of an Italian spring morning, of mountain daffodils and orange ...
Le Miroir de l'eau (The Mirror of Water) was a French mini-series directed by Edwin Baily and consisting of four episodes of one-hundred minutes each. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It was first broadcast between 9 and 30 August 2004 on France 2 .
Water (data page) – Chemical data page for water is a collection of the chemical and physical properties of water. Aquaphobia – Persistent and abnormal fear of water; Blue roof – Roof of a building that is designed to provide temporary water storage; Catchwater – Runoff catching or channeling device; Human right to water and sanitation