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	List of English words with diacritics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		This is a list of loan words adopted into the English language that have letters with diacritical marks.
		Some non-English words have become "naturalized" into the English language and the accents and other diacritics are generally no longer used (for example "à propos", which lost both the accent and space to become "apropos").
		Many of the words below are also in the process of losing their accents but can be found in print in both their accented and unaccented versions.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_English_words_with_diacritics (655 words)

	List of English words of French origin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Many of those words in turn originate from Latin, and sometimes from Greek.
		Most of the French vocabulary now appearing in English was imported over the centuries following the Norman Conquest of 1066, when England came under the administration of Norman-speaking peoples.
		Since English is of Germanic origin, ascertaining whether a given Germanic word is definitely from French can be difficult in a few cases.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_English_words_of_French_origin (487 words)

	French language (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		French (''français'', spelled françois until 1835, both pronounced in standard French, but often heard pronounced), or French language (''langue française'', formerly langue françoise, both pronounced), is the third of the Romance languages in terms of number of speakers, outnumbered by Spanish and Portuguese.
		The earliest extant text in French is the Oath of Strasbourg from 842; Old French became a literary language with the chansons de geste that told tales of the paladins of Charlemagne and the heroes of the Crusades.
		French is an official language of New Brunswick, the Yukon Territory, the Northwest Territories, and Nunavut.
	french-language.ask.dyndns.dk (3148 words)

	English language - Gurupedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		English is descended from the language spoken by the Germanic tribes, the Angles, Saxons, and Jutes (Vikings), that began populating the British Isles around 500 AD.
		English grammar is based on that of its Germanic roots, though some scholars during the 1700s and 1800s attempted to impose Latin grammar upon it, with little success.
		List of English words of Hindi origin, List of English words of Urdu origin)
	www.gurupedia.com /e/en/english_language.htm (2597 words)

	French language - Voyager, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		French (French: français) is the third of the Romance languages in terms of number of speakers, after Spanish and Portuguese, being spoken by about 67 million people as a mother tongue, and altogether by some 128 million people, which includes second-language speakers who use French for daily communication.
		French has been the only official language of Quebec since 1974, although it is commonly (and incorrectly) believed that the designation of French as the sole official language occurred in 1977 with the adoption of the Charter of the French Language (which is popularly referred to as Bill 101).
		French word order is Subject Verb Object, except when the object is a pronoun, in which case the word order is Subject Object Verb.
	www.voyager.in /French_language (3969 words)

	French language - Psychology Central
		French (français) is the third largest of the Romance languages in terms of number of native speakers, after Spanish and Portuguese, being spoken by about 87 million people as a mother tongue, and altogether by some 182 million people, which includes second-language speakers who use French for daily communication.
		French is thus the 15th most spoken language in the world by number of native speakers, and 5th in terms of daily speakers.
		French is written using the Latin alphabet, plus five diacritics (the circumflex accent, acute accent, grave accent, diaeresis, and cedilla) and one ligature (œ).
	www.psychcentral.com /psypsych/French_language (3926 words)

	Etymologically Speaking...
		Originally, the crushed seeds were mixed with vinegar--much as we enjoy it today--but the vinegar was eventually replaced for a time in the Middle Ages with grape "must" (a byproduct of the winemaking process).
		Coming to English via the French word meaning the same, this word is thought to derive ultimately from the Latin word lamella, a "thin plate," referring to the long, flat shape of the omlette, and to represent a gradual corruption of allumelle first to allumelette, then to alomelette (Le cuisiner francois of 1651 has aumelette).
		French porcelaine, from Old French pourcelaine, from Italian porcellana "of a sow," hence cowry shell, hence porcelain (from the resemblance of the cowry shell to the vulva of a sow), from porcella, diminutive of porca, sow, from Latin, feminine of porcus, swine.
	www.westegg.com /etymology (10416 words)

	KryssTal : Borrowed Words in English: French
		Originally a restaurant term, now used in computing.
		Originally a set of fresh horses for a journey.
		Originally the arms of a vanquished enemy put on display.
	www.krysstal.com /borrow_french.html (261 words)

	Open Directory - Science: Social Sciences: Linguistics: Languages: Natural: Indo-European: Germanic: English (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		English Contrasted - Native and non-native English-language accents are demonstrated from around the world, through the use of downloadable sound files.
		List of Banished Words - Annual list published by Lake Superior State University of words that should be banished from the English language for misuse, overuse, and just general uselessness.
		New Words In English - Neologisms and new uses of words in English.
	dmoz.org /Science/Social_Sciences/Linguistics/Languages/Natural/Indo-European/Germanic/English (827 words)

	Fluent French
		Jespersen shows that in general the colloquial-sounding words are the original Germanic ones, while the refined-sounding words were brought in by the upper class or educated from Latin, Greek, or French (which itself is derived from Vulgar Latin).
		The word anomaly came into English and anomalie into French from Latin at roughly the same time (the earliest citation in the Oxford English Dictionary is from 1571, the earliest in Le Petit Robert from 1570), yet the word seems to be more common in French.
		The plural of an acroynym is unchanged in French:
	www.signiform.com /french (16103 words)

	Geoffrey Nunberg - on "freedom fries" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Last week a couple of German university professors announced a campaign to eliminate a number of English-language words that are popular in Germany in favor of their French equivalents.
		German has perfectly good words of its own for notions like "okay" and "date," but adopting the French equivalents made it clear that the point was to demonstrate solidarity, not chauvinism.
		In fact when I looked at the list of English-language words that the Germans were proposing to replace with French ones, it turns out that more than half of them were originally from French themselves, from "date," and "tour" to "couch" and "model." But nobody registers those now as anything but native English stock.
	www-csli.stanford.edu /~nunberg/fries.html (801 words)

	KryssTal : Borrowed Words in English
		This is a collection of tables listing words from the many languages that have contributed words to English.
		For some languages the word list is complete; for others (French, Greek, Latin, Arabic, Spanish) only a selection of borrowed words is given as there are so many.
		Word from around the world that one day may enter the English language.
	www.krysstal.com /borrow.html (534 words)

	English Italian Origin Words (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		List of English words of Italian origin.) From Japanese: kamikaze, sushi, tycoon (Main article: List of English words of Japanese origin...
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		These words have cognates in other Germanic languages; that is, words that share the same origin.
	italian.aakn.info /english-italian-origin-words.html (195 words)

	The page cannot be found (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		HTTP Error 404 - File or directory not found.
		Go to Microsoft Product Support Services and perform a title search for the words HTTP and 404.
		Open IIS Help, which is accessible in IIS Manager (inetmgr), and search for topics titled Web Site Setup, Common Administrative Tasks, and About Custom Error Messages.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/l/li/list_of_english_words_of_... (121 words)

	Nautical Expressions in the Vernacular
		This web page lists expressions and definitions mentioned by listswains, members of the Patrick O'Brian Mailing List, also known as the Gunroom, the origins of which are made clear by passages from O'Brian's writing in which his characters' usage explains the provenance of the phrase.
		A rich and interesting repository of etymologies and sources of nautical words ultimately destined for the Oxford English Dictionary can be found at the Maritime History Citations for the OED site at the University of Minnesota at Duluth.
		The OED dubiously recorded a suggestion that this was short for "injury mast", but recent dictionaries say that is probably from Old French ajurie="help or relief", from Latin adiutare="to aid" (the source of the English word "adjutant").
	www.io.com /~gibbonsb/words.words.words.html (2078 words)

	Gallicism - Psychology Central
		In speaking or writing English, a Gallicism often results from a direct translation from French, giving an unidiomatic expression.
		False cognates often provide occasions for Gallicisms: For example, using the verb to assist to mean to be present at (as in the French assister à) is a Gallicism.
		List of French phrases used by English speakers
	psychcentral.com /psypsych/Gallicism (135 words)

	AskOxford: New Words
		Below are some of the new words to enter our most recently published dictionary of current English: the Oxford Dictionary of English (Revised Second Edition).
		• noun [mass noun] informal a blend of Hindi and English, in particular a variety of English used by speakers of Hindi, characterized by frequent use of Hindi vocabulary or constructions.
		Just email us with the word and a brief explanation of what it means, and if possible, where you came across it, to askoxford@oup.com.
	www.askoxford.com /worldofwords/newwords/?view=uk (728 words)

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