Émigrés: French Words That Turned English

by Richard Scholar

The fascinating history of French words that have entered the English language and the fertile but fraught relationship between English- and French-speaking cultures across the world

English has borrowed more words from French than from any other modern foreign language. French words and phrases--such as la mode, ennui, na vet and caprice--lend English a certain je-ne-sais-quoi that would otherwise...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691190321
• ISBN13: 9780691190327
• Release Date: August 2020
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.7" x 8.5"