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The Dictionnaire de la langue française (French pronunciation: [diksjɔnɛʁ də la lɑ̃ɡ fʁɑ̃sɛz]) by Émile Littré, commonly called simply the "Littré", is a four-volume dictionary of the French language published in Paris by Hachette.
The ampersand can be used to indicate that the "and" in a listed item is a part of the item's name and not a separator (e.g. "Rock, pop, rhythm & blues and hip hop"). [citation needed] The ampersand may still be used as an abbreviation for "and" in informal writing regardless of how "and" is used.
Étienne Balibar (/ b æ l ɪ ˈ b ɑːr /; French: [etjɛn balibaʁ]; born 23 April 1942) is a French philosopher.He has taught at the University of Paris X-Nanterre, at the University of California Irvine and is currently an Anniversary Chair Professor at the Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy (CRMEP) at Kingston University and a visiting professor at the Department of French ...
The most common ligature in modern usage is the ampersand & . This was originally a ligature of E and t , forming the Latin word "et", meaning "and". It has exactly the same use in French and in English. The ampersand comes in many different forms. Because of its ubiquity, it is generally no longer considered a ligature, but a logogram.
French orthography encompasses the spelling and punctuation of the French language.It is based on a combination of phonemic and historical principles. The spelling of words is largely based on the pronunciation of Old French c. 1100 –1200 AD, and has stayed more or less the same since then, despite enormous changes to the pronunciation of the language in the intervening years.
The phonology of Quebec French is more complex than that of Parisian or Continental French. Quebec French has maintained phonemic distinctions between /a/ and /ɑ/, /ɛ/ and /ɛː/, /ø/ and /ə/, /ɛ̃/ and /œ̃/. The latter phoneme of each pair has disappeared in Parisian French, and only the last distinction has been maintained in ...
At sign. The at sign, @, is an accounting and invoice abbreviation meaning "at a rate of" (e.g. 7 widgets @ £ 2 per widget = £14), [ 1] now seen more widely in email addresses and social media platform handles. It is normally read aloud as "at" and is also commonly called the at symbol, commercial at, or address sign .
The circumflex (ˆ) is one of the five diacritics used in French orthography. It may appear on the vowels a, e, i, o, and u, for example â in pâté . The circumflex, called accent circonflexe, has three primary functions in French: It affects the pronunciation of a, e, and o.