French speakers from non-metropolitan France speak about their origins and their family history
Jul 2021
Richard Scholar, "Émigrés: French Words That Turned English" (Princeton UP, 2020)
English has borrowed more words from French than from any other modern foreign language. French words and phrases—such as à la mode, ennui, naïveté and caprice—lend English a certain je-ne-sais-quoi that would otherwise elude the language. Richard Scholar examines the continuing ... Show More
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