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  • 1Harrap's Shorter French Dictionary — Harrap s Shorter French Dictionary, published by Chambers Harrap Publishers, is one of the best known English/French bilingual dictionaries in the United Kingdom and France. The eighth edition was published in April 2007.… …

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  • 2Collins-Robert French Dictionary — Collins Robert French Dictionary, Complete Unabridged Edition …

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  • 3Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary: French–English English–French — The Oxford Hachette French–English/English–French Dictionary is one of the most comprehensive and recent bilingual French–English/English–French dictionaries. It was the first such dictionary to be written using a computerized corpus and it… …

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  • 4French language in Canada — French is the mother tongue of about 6.7 million Canadians (22.7% of the Canadian population) [ [http://www12.statcan.ca/francais/census01/products/highlight/LanguageComposition/Page.cfm?Lang=E Geo=PR View=1a Table=1a StartRec=1 Sort=2 B1=Counts… …

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  • 5French language — French La langue française Pronunciation [fʁɑ̃sɛ] Spoken in See below Native speakers 68 million (2005) …

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  • 6French toast — (often known as eggy bread in most of the UK the exception being Scotland and Northern Ireland, pain perdu in French, pain doré in French speaking parts of Canada) is a popular breakfast food in North America and Europe.French toast is made with… …

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  • 7French words and phrases used in English — 1. English has been receptive to words and phrases from French for several centuries. The process has been continuous although there are two periods of special importance: the years after the Norman Conquest (11c), and the time of the French… …

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  • 8French leave — is Leave of absence without permission or without announcing one s departure , [ Brewer s Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (Millennium Edition; London: Cassell, 1999)] including leaving a party without bidding farewell to the host. The intent… …

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  • 9French classical music — began with the sacred music of the Roman Catholic Church, with written records predating the reign of Charlemagne. It includes all of the major genres of sacred and secular, instrumental and vocal music. French classical styles often have an… …

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  • 10dictionary — /dik sheuh ner ee/, n., pl. dictionaries. 1. a book containing a selection of the words of a language, usually arranged alphabetically, giving information about their meanings, pronunciations, etymologies, inflected forms, etc., expressed in… …

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