FRANCO-CANADIAN DIALECT. • 167. 



I mouiUe6 is completely vocalized. 



I - n in omelette and houhlon. 



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



Comprenait often becomes compernaif. 

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

 i = t + ch (as in Eng. church) before i in 2yci'f'ti, etc. 



Words not found in Oscar Dunn's 

 Glossaire Franco- G anadien : 



aut7'e. Vers le quinze de V autre mois : towards the fifteenth of next 



month. (Heard once.) 

 belouet ( Vaccinium Canadense and corynnhosum), blue berry or 

 huckle-berry. 



(This is no doubt the word hhiet. See Littii^.) 

 hete puante (Mephites mephitica), skunk. 

 biseau (?), a small sheaf. 

 bois hlanc ( Tilia Americana), basswood. 

 brayer (no doubt hroyer), to crush flax ; hraie, instrument for 



crushing flax ; brayage, action of crushing flax ; hrayeur, the 



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



work. (These words are used by M. LeMay in his Phlerin 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. 



ejnnette rouge ( Larix Americana), tamarac. 



epinette blanche [Abies alba), spruce, (in Littrd : Abies Canadensis). 

 Jiche, ii'on bolt, (general term ; in Littre : Cheville defer sur laquelle 



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

 Jil<ir, to grind (scythe etc.). 



gihier, tame fowl. 



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



icite for Fr. ici. 

 javelier, grain cradle. 



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



Tnorfiler, to whet (scythe etc). 



piei're de meule, whetstone. 



