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a sweet yeast bun, kind of a crossover between a popover and a light muffin; French also use the term as slang for 'pot belly', because of the overhang effect. bureau (pl. bureaux) government office; an agency for information exchange. Also means "desk" in French, and in the U.K.
The French language spoken in Belgium differs very little from that of France or Switzerland. It is characterized by the use of some terms that are considered archaic in France, as well as loanwords from languages such as Walloon, Picard, and Belgian Dutch. [1] French is one of the three official languages of Belgium, along with Dutch and German.
The Benelux Union (Dutch: Benelux Unie; [10] French: Union Benelux; [11] German: Benelux-Union; [12] Luxembourgish: Benelux-Unioun [13]) or Benelux is a politico-economic union, alliance and formal international intergovernmental cooperation of three neighbouring states in Western Europe: Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg. [14]
Googleplex, from Google and complex (meaning a complex of buildings) [b] Groupon, from group and coupon; Ideanomics, from idea and economics; Imagineering, from Imagine (or Imagination) and Engineering; LATAM, from Lan Airlines and TAM Airlines; Lenovo, from Legend and "novo" (Latin ablative for "new")
Verlan (pronounced ⓘ) is a type of argot in the French language, featuring inversion of syllables in a word, and is common in slang and youth language. It rests on a long French tradition of transposing syllables of individual words to create slang words.
Maskot/Getty Images. 6. Delulu. Short for ‘delusional,’ this word is all about living in a world of pure imagination (and only slightly detached from reality).
Getty Images New Orleans, La., is an eclectic melting pot of different cultures. The city's colorful history includes Native Americans, the French and the Spanish. New Orleans, consequently, has a ...
The word beurette, the female version of beur, is created by adding the -ette female suffix in French. In French many slang words are created by simply reversing the word in terms of spelling and then reading it out. Because of French grammar rules, the new word is usually completely different from the result of reversing the word phonetically.