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Dubois (/ d ʊ ˈ b w ɑː / duu-BWAH; also spelled DuBois or Du Bois, from the French of the woods/forest) is a French surname. Notable people with the surname include: Notable people with the surname include:
Abbé J. A. Dubois or Jean-Antoine Dubois (French pronunciation: [ʒɑ̃ ɑ̃twan dybwa]; January 1765 – 17 February 1848) was a French Catholic missionary in India, and member of the Missions Etrangères de Paris; he was called Dodda Swami by the local people.
Clément François Théodore Dubois (French pronunciation: [klemɑ̃ fʁɑ̃swa teɔdɔʁ dybwa]; 24 August 1837 – 11 June 1924) was a French Romantic composer, organist, and music teacher. After study at the Paris Conservatoire , Dubois won France's premier musical prize, the Prix de Rome in 1861.
I remember seeing DuBois as recording the coldest temperature in the continental U.S. many times on the local Pittsburgh news. If this was true it might make an interesting footnote in the wikipedia listing for DuBois. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 97.66.128.194 20:14, 11 February 2008 (UTC)
"Voyage, voyage" (French pronunciation: [vwajaʒ vwajaʒ]) is a song by French singer Desireless, released as the first single from her debut studio album, François (1989). It was written by Jean-Michel Rivat and Dominique Dubois, and produced by the former.
Lexique, syntaxe et analyse automatique des textes. Hommage à Jean Dubois, Danielle Leeman and Serge Meleuc, Université Paris X-Nanterre, 1996 (LINX 34–35).; Empirie, théorie, exploitation.
Schuylkill River, Pennsylvania: Located in eastern Pennsylvania, this name of this river is said to be a Dutch translation of the original Leni Lenape name. [1] Outsiders often have great difficulty pronouncing the name — and, when sounded out, say skuːlkɪl/ SKOOL-kil. Locals, however, pronounce the name as /ˈskuːkəl/ SKOO-kəl.
In New Zealand English, the vowels of kit /ˈkɪt/ and focus /ˈfoʊkəs/ have the same schwa-like quality. [o] [p] If you are from New Zealand, ignore the difference between the symbols /ɪ/ and /ə/. In contemporary New Zealand English and some other dialects, the vowels of near /ˈnɪər/ and square /ˈskwɛər/ are not distinguished.