FRANCO-CANADIAN DIALECT. 167 



i mouillee is completely vocalized. 



I = n in omelette and honblon. 



r is often silent in croUre, arbre, niercredi (first r in each) etc. 



Comprenait often becomes compernait. 

 t — k often in amitie, patate (second t.) 

 i = t + ch (as in Eng. church) before i in 2}(irti, etc. 



Words not found in Oscar Dunn's 

 Glossaire Franco- Cana,dien : 



autre. Vers le quinze de V autre mois : towards the fifteenth of next 



month. (Heard once.) 

 helouet ( Vaccinium Canadense and corymhosum ), blue berry or 

 huckle-berry. 



(This is no doubt the word bluet. See Littr^.) 

 bete puante ( Mephites mephitica), skunk. 

 biseau (?), a small sheaf. 

 'bois blanc ( Tilia Americaua), basswood. 

 brayer (no doubt broyer), to crush flax ; braie, instrument for 



crushing flax ; bray age, action of crushing flax ; brayeur, the 



person using the braie ; braierie, the place where the brayeurs 



work, (These words are used by M. LeMay in his Pelerin de 



Ste. Anne. Quebec, 1877.) 

 corvee, bee. A gathering of friends and neighbours to assist in some 



piece of work such as threshing, cutting wood or the like, 



crine, horse's mane. 



devers, towards. 



epinette rouge (Lar-ix Americana ), tamarac. 



epinette blanche (Abies alba), spruce, (in Littr^ : Abies Canadensis). 

 Jiche, ii-on bolt, (general term ; in Littr^ : Cheville defer sur laquelle 



on roule les cordes des instruments, tels que pianos etc.). 

 Jiler, to grind (scythe etc.). 



gibier, tame fowl. 



gond (?), staple (for a latch etc). 



icite for Fi*. ici. 

 javelier, grain ci'adle. 



mi (?) ( Phleum pratense), timothy (a grass). 



morfiler, to whet (scythe etc). 



pierre de meule, whetstone. 



