Month: January 2000

                Anglais de pacotille       Manship, suffixe anglais à tout faire 14/10/2018 22/07/2017   Veni, vidi, vici : les dictionnaires visuels Le 23 octobre – le 200ème anniversaire de Pierre Larousse   18/05/2017 21/10/2017               Créancier de l'anglais, le français…

INTERVIEW   Poet Pascale Petit, our interviewee,  was born to a Welsh mother and French father and grew up between Paris and Wales. Four of her seven poetry collections were nominated for the T.S. Eliot Award. Poems from Fauverie won the Manchester Poetry Prize and she was also granted a Cholmondeley Award. Pascale has been…

Contributions precedentes de René Meertens : Anglais de pacotille 14/10/2018 Manship, suffixe anglais à tout faire 22/07/2017 Veni, vidi, vici : les dictionnaires visuels 18/05/2017 Le 23 octobre – le 200ème anniversaire de Pierre Larousse 21/10/2017 Créancier de l’anglais, le français s’est payé en nature 9/10/2016 La grande aventure du mot « peradventure » racontée…

Jonathan : You were born in the United States. Where and when did you learn French ? In high school I had four years of traditional instruction in French. Years later, I realized my teachers had taught me all the French grammar I would ever need to know (more than all, in fact: I have…

– the publication of another book based on a manuscript hidden for years On this blog we recently announced (Actualités littéraires aux États Unis) the publication on 15 July of Harper Lee's second book Go Set a Watchman, which created an enormous amount of buzz not only in literary circles, and went straight to the top of the bestselling lists…

Albert Einstein published his General Theory of Relativity in 1915. Initially we wanted to cover the anniversary of this event on the blog, but in searching for an original angle, not covered by the mainstream press, we came across a lesser-known but equally interesting member of his family, Lieserl, his daughter. No-one is better qualified…

The following interview was conducted in English by Skype between Los Angeles CA and Stamford, Connecticut.                                                                            M. de  J. – l'interviewee                      J.G. – l'interviewer       Connecticut in fall                                California in fall                       …

  E X C L U S I V E    I N T E R V I E W linguist of the month of February 2017      Jonathan Goldberg interviewed Professor Ayres-Bennett by Skype from Los Angeles    Echo Park, Los Angeles The Cam River, Cambridge Wendy Ayres-Bennett, Professor of French Philology and Linguistics…