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The Office of the Commissioner General for the French Language, a supervisory body, has recently published a new edition of the Dictionnaire des Né ologismes Officiels , which lists the 2,000-odd terms so far approved (plus some 400 “recommended” ones whose use is obligatory for certain publications only).
But then, it is modest compared to the Russian cosmonaut .) Some of the Dictionnaire's Anglicisms have undergone more drastic transcriptional surgery, e.g. gazole for `gas oil,' fioul for `fuel' (oil), roquette for `rocket,' bipasse for `bypass.
Ernout and Meillet, in their delightful Dictionnaire étymologique de la langue latine , urbanely review several rather far-fetched possibilities including LMN—well, it is a series—and elephas (elephant), but conclude with a shrug of their shoulders and a suggestion that the word might have come from Etruscan.
More than that, the Dictionnaire gives its blessing also to several words of blatantly English stock, such as hall, drugstore , and pipeline (pronounce: pea-PLEAN), even including portmanteau words ( bit, pixel ) and acronyms ( laser, radar ).
The French philosopher Pierre Bayle, for example, set out in the 1690s to produce a vast reference work, Dictionnaire historique et critique ( Historical and Critical Dictionary ), whose sole purpose was to point out the mistakes in all other previously published reference works.