French Vocabulary

DESCRIPTION

• General notes     

COMPOSITION

• The Latin stock  
• The Celtic substratum
• The Germanic superstratum
• Italian, Spanish and other Romance borrowings
• Arabic and other Oriental loans
• The Greek words
• English influences

 SPEECH AND DIALECTS

• Local dialects and Patois
• Argot and Jargon  

DICTIONARIES

• Internationally used French phrases
  French words and expressions used in English and the other foreign languages...
• The Uncensored French Language
  List of practical and colloquial words often neglected by the dictionaries...
• French-English False Friends
  "False friends" are words of the same but in fact of different meanings.  

STUDIES

• Local dialects and Patois
• Argot and Jargon  

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