Example sentences for: dictionnaire

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  • 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 ).

  • He might even have snubbed the many Dictionnaire entries created by literal translation of the imagery embodied in the corresponding English term, as souris for `mouse' (of a personal computer) or retombées for (nuclear) `fallout.

  • 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).

  • 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.

  • Dictionnaire de Franglais


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