While that might look like a typically English sentence to you, four of the key words are pilfered from the French language. Now there's nothing wrong with that especially given how many ...

When you’re an English speaker learning French, one of the best surprises is how many words are cognates—words that look and sound similar in both English and French, and have the same meaning. A few ...

I don't like hearing about any languages disappearing, but the idea of French's demise seems intolerable. Fortunately, it is also probably impossible, at least in the near future, but French is a ...

Here are 15 French words Anglos have redefined. Panther The French are well known for lending words from the English language but Anglos have proven just as willing to adopt Gallic words and have ...

Even among the 1000 most frequently used words in modern English, not far short of 50 percent have come into the language from French or Latin. Numbers do not always tell us everything ...

Her words were mostly French, but the Ivorian slang and English words that she mixed in made a new language. To speak only French, “c’est zogo” — “it’s uncool,” said Marla ...