Émigrés : : French Words That Turned English / / Richard Scholar.
The fascinating history of French words that have entered the English language and the fertile but fraught relationship between English- and French-speaking cultures across the worldEnglish has borrowed more words from French than from any other modern foreign language. French words and phrases—such...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2020] ©2020 |
| Year of Publication: | 2020 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush
- PART I. MIXINGS
- Chapter one. French À la Mode
- Chapter two. Modes of English
- Chapter three. Creolizing Keywords
- PART II. MIGRATIONS
- Chapter four. Naïveté
- Chapter five. Ennui
- Chapter six. Caprice
- Migrants in Our Midst
- Acknowledgements
- Notes
- References
- Index