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  2. Glossary of French words and expressions in English

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    In French, les objets trouvés, short for le bureau des objets trouvés, means the lost-and-found, the lost property. outré out of the ordinary, unusual. In French, it means outraged (for a person) or exaggerated, extravagant, overdone (for a thing, esp. a praise, an actor's style of acting, etc.); in that second meaning, belongs to "literary ...

  3. Quebec French lexicon - Wikipedia

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    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 interregional variations.

  4. Crossword abbreviations - Wikipedia

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    Against – V or VS (versus) Agent – REP (representative) Agricultural – AG; Air conditioning – AC; Airman – AC (aircraftman) Alien – ET (extraterrestrial) Also known as – AKA; Aluminium – AL (chemical symbol) Alumnus – OB (old boy) or OG (old girl) Ambassador – HE (his/her excellency) America – A, AM, US or USA (United ...

  5. Fill-In (puzzle) - Wikipedia

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    The solver is given a grid and a list of words. To solve the puzzle correctly, the solver must find a solution that fits all of the available words into the grid.

  6. Très honorable avec félicitations - Wikipedia

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    They are entirely distinct from bachelor's and master's distinctions, which are Assez bien, Bien and Très bien, as they are awarded by the Thesis Committee right after the thesis' Defense. The félicitations du jury were an exceptional distinction, requiring a positive secret vote by the Committee and a special memo to be written by the ...

  7. Perfect is the enemy of good - Wikipedia

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    Dit que le mieux est l'ennemi du bien. (In his writings, a wise Italian says that the best is the enemy of the good.) Previously, around 1726, in his Pensées, Montesquieu wrote "Le mieux est le mortel ennemi du bien" ('The best is the mortal enemy of the good'). [3]

  8. Crossword - Wikipedia

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    A crossword (or crossword puzzle) is a word game consisting of a grid of black and white squares, into which solvers enter words or phrases ("entries") crossing each other horizontally ("across") and vertically ("down") according to a set of clues. Each white square is typically filled with one letter, while the black squares are used to ...

  9. French adverbs - Wikipedia

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    In French, as in English, most adverbs are derived from adjectives. In most cases, this is done by adding the suffix -ment ("-ly") to the adjective's feminine singular form. For example, the feminine singular form of lent ("slow") is lente , so the corresponding adverb is lentement ("slowly"); similarly, heureux → heureusement ("happy" → ...