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a copied term/thing. In linguistics, a loan translation. canard (canard means "duck" in French) an unfounded rumor or anecdote. a leading airfoil attached to an aircraft forward of the main wing. a slang word for "newspaper". a piece of sugar slightly soused with coffee or cognac (or another strong alcohol). canapé
Chaucer worked, in part, from a translation of the Consolation into French by Jean de Meun but is clear he also worked from a Latin version, correcting some of the liberties de Meun takes with the text. The Latin source was probably a corrupt version of Boethius' original, which explains some of Chaucer's own misinterpretations of the work.
This is the pronunciation key for IPA transcriptions of French on Wikipedia. It provides a set of symbols to represent the pronunciation of French in Wikipedia articles, and example words that illustrate the sounds that correspond to them.
A fabliau (French pronunciation:; plural fabliaux) is a comic, often anonymous tale written by jongleurs in northeast France between c. 1150 and 1400. They are generally characterized by sexual and scatological obscenity, and by a set of contrary attitudes—contrary to the church and to the nobility. [1]
The Lais of Marie de France, in Old French from the University of Manitoba; Online verse translations by Judith P. Shoaf; Many of the Anonymous Old French Lais with English translations from the University of Liverpool; The Franklin's Tale at the Electronic Canterbury Tales; The Middle English Breton Lays at TEAMS Middle English Texts
Geoffrey Chaucer (/ ˈ tʃ ɔː s ər / CHAW-sər; c. 1343 – 25 October 1400) was an English poet, author, and civil servant best known for The Canterbury Tales. [1] He has been called the "father of English literature", or, alternatively, the "father of English poetry". [2]
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.
The Ayenbite of Inwyt, a translation of a French confessional prose work, completed in 1340, is written in a Kentish dialect. The best known writer of Middle English, Geoffrey Chaucer , wrote in the second half of the 14th century in the emerging London dialect, although he also portrays some of his characters as speaking in northern dialects ...
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