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lit. "know how to do"; to respond appropriately to any situation. savoir-vivre fact of following conventional norms within a society; etiquette (etiquette also comes from a French word, étiquette). sobriquet an assumed name, a nickname (often used in a pejorative way in French). [54] soi-disant lit. "oneself saying"; so-called; self-described ...
is the term commonly used by French women, not brassiere. Yes, the word is originally French, and yes, French know what the word is, but French don't use it. Whichever list it falls in, both words were French and deserved to be shown one place or the other. porte cochère
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the word still retains a strong 'french' character. It still looks odd as an english word. people still have a hard time pronouncing it, or asking how to pronouce it, indicating that they recognize it as a french word, unlike 'table', 'competition' or 'art'.
Modern French allows for fewer word orders than Latin or Old French, both of which Modern French has evolved from. In both Latin and Old French, all six potential word orders are possible: Subject-verb-object (SVO) Verb-object-subject (VOS) Object-subject-verb (OSV) Subject-object-verb (SOV) Object-verb-subject (OVS) Verb-subject-object (VSO)
RSVP is an initialism derived from the French phrase "Répondez s'il vous plaît", [1] meaning "Please respond" (literally "Respond, if it pleases you"), to require confirmation of an invitation. The initialism "RSVP" is no longer used much in France, where it is considered formal and old-fashioned.
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