Word: pistolese
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The English translation used is adequate on the whole. One minor quibble, however: since the aim is to capture as Gallic a spirit as possible, why do they doggedly insist on talking of guineas, pounds, shillings and pence instead of louis d'or, livres, sols, deniers, pistoles and francs?
The dissension between English-speaking and French-speaking Canadians is Canada's central problem. Like many another good citizen, William Sherwood Fox, president of the University of Western Ontario, has long been disturbed by it. In 1933 he went to the small Quebec village of Trois Pistoles on the...
Each summer since then, students have come to live as their hosts live, learn to like them and be liked. They hold informal language classes, hear French spoken daily, enjoy a vacation while learning. The Quebec and Ontario departments of education now send their language teachers to Trois Pistoles. The...
Contemporary publications tell of early progress at Cambridge in Massachusetts. There is a copy of the first printed account of Harvard published at London in 1643. A news item dated January 25, 1764 describes the great fire which destroyed Harvard Hall, "only one of our ancient buildings which still remained...
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