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instead of munitions. Je vous fais apologie is used instead oije vous 

 fats excuse ; change pour un dollar often takes the place of monnaie 

 pout un piastre (dollar). Elle chatite a la perfection is used instead 

 oi en perfection, dans la perfection. 



Among other colloquial Anglicisms may be mentioned : payer 

 un compliment for adresser un compliment ; payer ses respects for pre- 

 senter ses respects ; salle a diner for salle a manger ; loqjiet for 

 '■' locket " instead of medallion (loq^iet is a door latch) ; consistant for 

 " consistent " instead of logique, consequent ; avoir de trouble for avoir 

 de peine, difficulte, mal ; perniettez que je vous trouble, etc., for que je 

 vous derange, etc. Then we find a number of English verbs adopted 

 and conjugated according to the first conjugation, for example : — 

 bouncer, bolter, blackballer, biter (to beat), screper (to scrape), slaker 

 (to slack), logher (to log), saider (to side track). This last example is 

 a very convenient Anglicism, for its French equivalent is pousser les 

 wagons sur taie gare d' evitement. 



I will conclude this list of colloquial Anglicisms with a choice 

 specimen of Acadian French, quoted by M, Lusignan, from an ar- 

 ticle on the French Canadian press that appeared in a French re- 

 view : — " J e voudrais bien vous <f ?wer, raais ce matin j'attelai mon 

 team, et a peine sortie de la stable les chevaux prennent leur race. 

 Ah ! ga allaityar^/ ! Et quand je vins pour devirer [O. F. = tourner] 

 le corner, je tombe par terre, les chevaux partirent tous seuls. lis 

 furent pognes [O. F. = blesses] et je iusfinde." 



I will now proceed to the Anglicisms to be met with in the 

 daily papers. First of all, here is a list of words which, although 

 French, are often printed as spelt in English : libel, rebel, traffic, ex- 

 ercise, dance, licetise, sulphuric, tansy, for libelle, rebelle, trafic, exercice, 

 danse, licence, sulfurique, tanaisie. Names of foreign cities are 

 frequently to be met with in their English form instead of the French 

 one : thus we have Antwerp, Leghorn, Athens, Cairo, Mecca, Hague, 

 etc., for Anvers, Livourne, Athenes, Le Caire, La Mecque, La LLaye, 

 etc. We find tc7i editorial or un article tditorial used in the place of 

 un article de fond, de tete de la reduction, premier Montreal, Quebec, 

 etc.; depjite-ministre iox chef du bureau au ministere ; il est runieur 

 que for on dit ; hydrant for bornefontaine : hose for boyau ; plant for 

 le materiel, outillage ; collecteur (collector) for garcon de recettes ; 

 adresser une asseinblee for haranguer, faire tm discours, porter la 

 parole, adresser la parole, s'adi'esser a une assemblee : lecturer for 



