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  2. Quebec French lexicon - Wikipedia

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    Quebec French lexicon. There are various lexical differences between Quebec French and Metropolitan French in France. These are distributed throughout the registers, from slang to formal usage. Notwithstanding Acadian French in the Maritime Provinces, Quebec French is the dominant form of French throughout Canada, with only very limited ...

  3. Quebec French - Wikipedia

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    Quebec French (French: français québécois [fʁɑ̃sɛ kebekwa]), also known as Québécois French, is the predominant variety of the French language spoken in Canada. It is the dominant language of the province of Quebec, used in everyday communication, in education, the media, and government. Maxime, a speaker of Québecois French, recorded ...

  4. Canadian French - Wikipedia

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    fr-CA. Canadian French (French: français canadien, pronounced [fʁãˈsɛ kanaˈd͡zjɛ̃]) is the French language as it is spoken in Canada. It includes multiple varieties, the most prominent of which is Québécois (Quebec French). Formerly Canadian French referred solely to Quebec French and the closely related varieties of Ontario (Franco ...

  5. List of French-language Canadian television series - Wikipedia

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    BANDEÀPART.tv. Le Banquier - licensed French-language version of Endemol's Deal or No Deal. Les Beaux Dimanches. Les Belles Histoires des pays d'en haut - téléroman. Bibi et Geneviève. Big Brother - reality. Bleu Nuit - adult. Les Bleus de Ramville † - sitcom. Blindés.

  6. French Canadians - Wikipedia

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    e. French Canadians, referred to as Canadiens mainly before the nineteenth century, are an ethnic group descended from French colonists first arriving in France's colony of Canada in 1608. [citation needed] The vast majority of French Canadians live in the province of Quebec. During the 17th century, French settlers originating mainly from the ...

  7. Quebec French phonology - Wikipedia

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    The phonemes /u/ and /uː/ are not distinct in modern French of France or in modern Quebec French; the spelling <oû> was the /uː/ phoneme, but croûte is pronounced with a short /u/ in modern French of France and in modern Quebec French. In Quebec French, the phoneme /uː/ is used only in loanwords: cool. The phoneme /ɔ/ is pronounced [ɒː ...

  8. Zacharie Cloutier - Wikipedia

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    Denis Cloutier and Renée Brière. Signature. Zacharie Cloutier (c. 1590 – September 17, 1677) was a French carpenter who immigrated to New France in 1634 in the first wave of the Percheron immigration from the former province of Perche, to an area that is today part of Quebec, Canada. He settled in Beauport and founded one of the foremost ...

  9. Glossary of French words and expressions in English

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    lit. "stamp"; a distinctive quality; quality, prestige. café. a coffee shop (also used in French for "coffee"). Café au lait. café au lait. coffee with milk; or a light-brown color. In medicine, it is also used to describe a birthmark that is of a light-brown color (café au lait spot). calque. a copied term/thing.