Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The French language between around the middle of the 1300s to around the end of 1500s.
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I've won awards for my academic writing, can read Middle French and Latin, and my dissertation opens with a chapter on Joan of Arc.
Archive 2010-01-01 Kat Howard 2010
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It camefromthe Middle French word Pamphilet, which the Oxford English Dictionary explainswas theFrench title ofan anonymous12th-century comic love poem written in Latin: Pamphilus, seu de Amore Pamphilus: or, On Love.
The Grammarphobia Blog » Blog Archive » Is a pamphlet a little pamph? 2010
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I've won awards for my academic writing, can read Middle French and Latin, and my dissertation opens with a chapter on Joan of Arc.
Why I am not angry at John Scalzi today Kat Howard 2010
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Perhaps when you finish with Middle French, we will be treated to more of your writing?
The Tea Party at the End of the World Kat Howard 2009
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According to wikipedia.com; The word gender comes from the Middle English gendre, a loanword from Norman-conquest-era Middle French.
Gender Sensitivity Among Nigerian Ethnic Group « Illiteracy Articles « Articles « Literacy News 2009
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Etymology: French, from Middle French, shade of color, from nuer to make shades of color, from nue cloud, from Latin nubes; perhaps akin to Welsh nudd mist
The Obama administration would like you to know that the repeal of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" has been kicked down the road. Ann Althouse 2009
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Etymology: Middle English, from Middle French, from Medieval Latin litteralis, from Latin, of a letter, from littera letter
The Volokh Conspiracy » Top Ten Reasons Obama Won the Nobel Peace Prize 2009
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Languages used that are not modern English: Latin, Homeric Greek, Middle French, and two dialects of Middle English
Archive 2009-07-01 Kat Howard 2009
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I can read Beowulfin the original, and translate Middle French.
With additional impractical poem Kat Howard 2009
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I can read Beowulfin the original, and translate Middle French.
Archive 2009-03-01 Kat Howard 2009
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