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Kareen

01:44

@RhysW you mean the letters O and H consecutively?

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Laure

05:51

@RhysW There's the interjection oh, but in the middle of a word it will take some thinking. "Ohio" is Ohio, of course.

Got one! cohabitation. And I expect we might find more with prefix co- and word root starting with "h".

Without it being meant as a prefix co- (it was in latin I think but not felt like that in french nowadayus) cohésion, cohérence, cohorte

Laure

06:14

tohu-bohu

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RhysW

07:34

@Laure Perfect! Thanks for this, I searched through a dictionary for ages trying a similar tactic

Laure

08:06

@awllower : Puisque tu nous y invites dans ton profil so inform me if some error occurs. Here's to fix French in your prifile.

J'aime les mathématiques.

la seule raison d' étudier les mathématiques

la démonstration de Wiles emploie la méthode (enlever s' )

du jour où l'on étend**ra** les résultats

viz. à savoir

beaucoup des moyennes pour investiguer mathématiques beaucoup d'autres façons de faire de la recherche ne mathématiques

Peut-être que des spécialistes des maths feront mieux que moi sur les expressions purement mathématiques, je ne suis pas scientifique.

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English Language & Usage [French]

18:04

Q: Spelling of the word "connoisseur"

From what I gathered on the Web, "connoisseur" is spelled that way because it is derived from the old french verb "connoître" (to know) which has now been spelt "connaître" for close to two centuries. Thus, the spelling I would expect as a native french speaker would be "connaisseur". Is there a...