Word: ens
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Waltz, "Arlequin en Voyage," Zach...
...distinctly new features introduced by the new decree are the following: (1) wider selection of studies; (2) liberty to migrate from one university centre to another; (3) the privilege of taking examinations either successively or en bloc, just as the student wishes...
...things that strike the English speaking person of today most when studying French are the peculiar vowels, such as u, eu and mute e, and the nasal vowels an, en, in, on and un. These difficulties are not found to so great an extent in the French of the eleventh century. The u sound did exist then and seemed to offer certain difficulties to the Englishman of the day. But the eu, as in coleur, apparently did not exist. In its place, however, are found two other sounds, one something like o, and the other a dipthongal sound not unlike...
...difference, but we are unable to state just the amount of it. We know that there were two nasal vowels in old French, a and e before nasal consonants. But there is this striking difference that the n is not swallowed up in the vowel, but that an and en were possibly pronounced after the English fashion...
...Critique Sur L'Architecture Contemporaine en France," with stereopticon views, in French, by Professor Desire Despradelle, on Wednesdays, beginning Dec. 11, in room 22, Walker Building...