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Honni soit qui mal y pense
Honni soit qui mal y pense: l'incroyable histoire d'amour entre le français et l'anglais | Henriette Walter
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Quand on aime, on donne sans compter..., et quand on sait que plus des deux tiers du vocabulaire anglais vient du français ou du latin, que le mushroom anglais est en fait le mousseron français assaisonné à la mode anglaise et que le bol français est à l'origine le bowl anglais prononcé à la française, on comprend alors qu'entre ces deux langues, c'est une véritable histoire d'amour qui a commencé il y a plusieurs siècles... et qui dure. Bien sûr, les peuples ont connu tour à tour une guerre de Cent Ans ou une Entente cordiale, mais les langues, de leur côté, ont constamment mêlé leurs mots pour donner parfois naissance à des " faux amis ", voire bien souvent aussi à de nombreux " bons amis " : il y en a plus de trois mille dont la forme graphique est parfaitement identique dans les deux langues, parmi lesquels anecdote, caricature, garage, horizon, jaguar, moustache, silicone, structure, unique... C'est l'histoire peu commune de deux langues voisines et néanmoins amies qu'Henriette Walter conte ici en parallèle, au fil de multiples traversées de la Manche dans les deux sens, interrompues par un grand voyage à la conquête du Nouveau Monde. En revivant cette aventure sentimentale au pays des mots, ponctuée d'une foule d'exemples, de jeux insolites et de piquantes anecdotes, on découvre que l'érudition n'est pas forcément ennuyeuse, et que l'on peut apprendre tout en s'amusant. Et honni soit qui mal y pense.
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I didn't quite finish this, but what I did read was very interesting. Some neat facts about French and for me a new perspective on English.

Hobbinol Are you a member of the Most Noble Order of the Garter now!😉 8y
rabbitprincess @Hobbinol I keep checking the post to see if they've sent it yet 😉 8y
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HICCOUGH is pronounced HICCUP?! Guess I've been pronouncing that wrong for decades. 🤔

saresmoore I just comprehended most of this page, so woohoo! But also, my 8yo daughter comes face to face with this problem of pronunciation all the time. She can understand the meaning of new words she reads, but often has no idea how to pronounce them. 8y
BooksTeasAndBookishThings I always assumed it was slightly different than a hiccup. Like it came out as a slight cough after the hiccup. So I always pronounced it like hick-kahf... strange when you finally hear a word you have read your entire life. My biggest embarrassment was melancholy. I always pronounced it in my head with a "ch" sound never a "k" sound. Until I said it in front of a friend and he laughed and corrected me. My definition was spot on, but still... 8y
rabbitprincess @saresmoore Yay! ? And I can sympathize with your daughter on knowing meanings but not pronunciation. My friend nearly died laughing when I pronounced "assuage" as "a-sewage" rather than "uh-swayj". 8y
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rabbitprincess @BooksTeasAndBookishThings I think that was my distinction as well, like a hiccup is a hiccup, a hiccough is hiccuping and coughing, and a hicburp is when you hiccup and burp at the same time 😜 8y
BooksTeasAndBookishThings @rabbitprincess haha I have yet to see the last one, but makes sense 😉🙌 8y
rabbitprincess @BooksTeasAndBookishThings The last one is my invention 😉 (at least as far as I know) 8y
BooksTeasAndBookishThings It feels like it should be a word. 🙃 8y
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Reading equipment for this particular book includes my commonplace book (purchased at the London Transport Museum for Benedict Cumberbatch reasons) and a pen for writing down all the fun facts I'm learning.
#readjanuary

mllemay Oh wow, this sounds fascinating!! 8y
rabbitprincess @mllemay It is! I'm going pretty slowly because I've been able to renew it to make room for library books tat can't be renewed, but I am determined to finish it. 8y
saresmoore "...for Benedict Cumberbatch reasons" ? I'll be using that frequently, I think. 8y
rabbitprincess @saresmoore He's been in so many things that have been adapted from books that I have a LibraryThing tag called BMMDI, or "Benedict made me do it" ? 8y
saresmoore Ahaha! Yes! You are my hero! 8y
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