French words in English/Catalogs: Revision history

15 October 2008

• curprev 10:4910:49, 15 October 2008‎ imported>Hayford Peirce‎ 25,283 bytes +524‎ →‎List of French words in English: added three more definitions

14 October 2008

• curprev 16:4716:47, 14 October 2008‎ imported>Hayford Peirce‎ 25,108 bytes +237‎ →‎List of French words in English: added 3 definitions; will work my way down the list

8 October 2008

• curprev 15:4815:48, 8 October 2008‎ imported>Hayford Peirce‎ 24,968 bytes +97‎ →‎List of French words in English: glad you agree -- I've put in the first two and will gradually work my way down the list
• curprev 14:3214:32, 8 October 2008‎ imported>Ro Thorpe‎ 24,871 bytes +112‎ in all these articles I've used italics, but yes, we could use the space to show more meanings here
• curprev 14:2114:21, 8 October 2008‎ imported>Ro Thorpe‎ 24,940 bytes +40‎ yes, dic confirms both prons
• curprev 12:3412:34, 8 October 2008‎ imported>Hayford Peirce‎ 24,900 bytes +47‎ →‎List of French words in English: an alternative way of doing it -- see "abattoir" again; this is how I would do it, I think
• curprev 11:5311:53, 8 October 2008‎ imported>Hayford Peirce‎ 24,853 bytes +94‎ at least on *my* monitor, there's lots of blank space in the first column -- why not put in what these words mean? I myself am not sure of a number of them. See "abattoir" for examples of how to do it
• curprev 11:4911:49, 8 October 2008‎ imported>Hayford Peirce‎ 24,780 bytes +21‎ →‎List of French words in English: I've never heard this pronounced as anyelse than pay-per m'shay

4 October 2008

• curprev 15:3615:36, 4 October 2008‎ imported>Ro Thorpe‎ 24,759 bytes +364‎ AmE tourniquet

26 September 2008

• curprev 17:3017:30, 26 September 2008‎ imported>Ro Thorpe‎ m 24,740 bytes +18‎ bolded an r
• curprev 12:4812:48, 26 September 2008‎ imported>Hayford Peirce‎ 24,738 bytes +16‎ →‎List of French words in English: punctuality is the politesse of princes
• curprev 00:4600:46, 26 September 2008‎ imported>Pierre-Alain Gouanvic‎ 24,722 bytes +121‎ No edit summary
• curprev 00:3500:35, 26 September 2008‎ imported>Pierre-Alain Gouanvic‎ 24,678 bytes +77‎ c'est la vie doesn't appear to have an accent (ést) in En (none in FR)

25 September 2008

• curprev 23:3123:31, 25 September 2008‎ imported>Pierre-Alain Gouanvic‎ 24,601 bytes +206‎ wait a minute... see talk page
• curprev 22:4222:42, 25 September 2008‎ imported>Pierre-Alain Gouanvic‎ 24,411 bytes +2‎ appelation => appellation ; I think that the ll is conserved in En (google search),
• curprev 16:5816:58, 25 September 2008‎ imported>Hayford Peirce‎ 24,409 bytes +14‎ →‎List of French words in English: rewrote header -- let's be *sure* of ourselves, hehe; also, the footnote scheme looks good to me. Are there words other than "absinthe"? to footnote?
• curprev 16:5216:52, 25 September 2008‎ imported>Ro Thorpe‎ m 24,395 bytes +29‎ →‎List of French words in English: let's see how it looks as a footnote
• curprev 16:4916:49, 25 September 2008‎ imported>Ro Thorpe‎ 24,366 bytes −38‎ rewrote table header

22 September 2008

• curprev 12:5112:51, 22 September 2008‎ imported>Ro Thorpe‎ 24,411 bytes +7‎ Vee hef vayz...
• curprev 12:4712:47, 22 September 2008‎ imported>Ro Thorpe‎ 24,404 bytes +207‎ a famous omission! - i've only heard u.s. vace, will look in mw
• curprev 12:2712:27, 22 September 2008‎ imported>Hayford Peirce‎ 24,385 bytes +11‎ →‎List of French words in English: toe-may-toe or tah-mah-toe? vace, vaze, or a *third* one that M-W also shows?!

21 September 2008

• curprev 17:4817:48, 21 September 2008‎ imported>Ro Thorpe‎ 24,374 bytes +149‎ prons
• curprev 13:4413:44, 21 September 2008‎ imported>Hayford Peirce‎ 24,351 bytes +126‎ →‎List of French words in English: added another line to header
• curprev 12:1412:14, 21 September 2008‎ imported>Hayford Peirce‎ 24,321 bytes +54‎ →‎List of French words in English: rewrote header again, picked on poor old "absinthe" as a test to show one possible way of fixing thing
• curprev 12:0312:03, 21 September 2008‎ imported>Hayford Peirce‎ 24,278 bytes −4‎ reverted to Ro's original text, along with new header explaining the spelling; added "absinthe" to "absinth(e) -- see discussion
• curprev 12:0012:00, 21 September 2008‎ imported>Hayford Peirce‎ 24,282 bytes +15‎ →‎List of French words in English: made the spelling stuff absolutely clear, I hope
• curprev 11:4911:49, 21 September 2008‎ imported>Pierre-Alain Gouanvic‎ 24,267 bytes +14‎ pas encore fini

20 September 2008

• curprev 17:5017:50, 20 September 2008‎ imported>Hayford Peirce‎ 24,253 bytes +14‎ →‎List of French words in English: well, let's make this column header perfectly clair, then!
• curprev 17:3517:35, 20 September 2008‎ imported>Ro Thorpe‎ 24,239 bytes +1‎ corrected aiguilette
• curprev 16:0616:06, 20 September 2008‎ imported>Ro Thorpe‎ 24,238 bytes +13‎ →‎List of French words in English: altpron
• curprev 15:5915:59, 20 September 2008‎ imported>Hayford Peirce‎ 24,225 bytes 0‎ →‎List of French words in English: croupier was out of order -- les jeux sont faits!
• curprev 13:3913:39, 20 September 2008‎ imported>Ro Thorpe‎ 24,225 bytes +28‎ →‎List of French words in English: cro

7 September 2008

• curprev 15:5215:52, 7 September 2008‎ imported>Hayford Peirce‎ 24,197 bytes +34‎ →‎List of French words in English: if you *really* know what these woids mean, you is a better man dan moi
• curprev 08:2708:27, 7 September 2008‎ imported>Ro Thorpe‎ 24,163 bytes +27‎ →‎List of French words in English: wass ist dass? blòuz, hòuz, blûz, alles in Ordnung

6 September 2008

• curprev 20:0920:09, 6 September 2008‎ imported>Hayford Peirce‎ 24,157 bytes +21‎ →‎List of French words in English: Jabot, Mein Herr! Also, in 'Merkin-talk, "blouse" rhymes with "house", not de blues....

5 September 2008

• curprev 15:0415:04, 5 September 2008‎ imported>Ro Thorpe‎ 24,146 bytes +10‎ No edit summary
• curprev 15:0215:02, 5 September 2008‎ imported>Ro Thorpe‎ 24,136 bytes +968‎ No edit summary
• curprev 15:0115:01, 5 September 2008‎ imported>Ro Thorpe‎ 24,128 bytes +603‎ No edit summary
• curprev 11:0111:01, 5 September 2008‎ imported>Hayford Peirce‎ 24,093 bytes +16‎ →‎List of French words in English: I pray to dieu that this list may come to an end someday.... (Old Grenouille du Benitier)

3 September 2008

• curprev 12:5812:58, 3 September 2008‎ imported>Hayford Peirce‎ 24,077 bytes +171‎ →‎List of French words in English: and after gorging ourselves on art, how about on two different entries for dessert?
• curprev 12:5512:55, 3 September 2008‎ imported>Hayford Peirce‎ 24,039 bytes +18‎ →‎List of French words in English: how about a little chinoiserie to go with the Degas?
• curprev 12:5312:53, 3 September 2008‎ imported>Hayford Peirce‎ 24,021 bytes +115‎ →‎List of French words in English: the NTY had a long article about Degas this morning with several mentions of "arabesque penchee" but M-W only has it shown as "arabesque"
• curprev 07:0307:03, 3 September 2008‎ imported>Ro Thorpe‎ 24,005 bytes +50‎ pronounced 'crown' by some kids at primary school, gimme the yella crown!

2 September 2008

• curprev 12:3712:37, 2 September 2008‎ imported>Hayford Peirce‎ 23,955 bytes +49‎ →‎List of French words in English: not that I wanna throw a quarantine line around yer repertory er anything like that, myte

23 August 2008

• curprev 11:0111:01, 23 August 2008‎ imported>Ro Thorpe‎ 23,915 bytes +9‎ ô-bérzh is better
• curprev 11:0011:00, 23 August 2008‎ imported>Ro Thorpe‎ 23,915 bytes +9‎ ô-bãrzh

22 August 2008

• curprev 13:1313:13, 22 August 2008‎ imported>Hayford Peirce‎ 23,906 bytes +163‎ →‎List of French words in English: aux, aux, I am gonna sing an aubade, then eat an aubergine at the friendly neighborhood auberge....
• curprev 12:4112:41, 22 August 2008‎ imported>Ro Thorpe‎ 23,892 bytes +20‎ →‎List of French words in English: aubade

16 August 2008

• curprev 23:0323:03, 16 August 2008‎ imported>Hayford Peirce‎ 23,872 bytes +129‎ →‎List of French words in English: as a prelude, just lemme say that I have absolutely no ulterior motif in addin' these two woids
• curprev 17:3417:34, 16 August 2008‎ imported>Ro Thorpe‎ 23,834 bytes +26‎ →‎List of French words in English: one from Conway