Beyonce will be included as a new entry in the latest edition of the French encyclopaedic dictionary Le Petit Larousse. The American popstar will feature alongside celebrities including Cate Blanchett ...

At the heart of these efforts is Jean-Paul Sliva, an Assyrian whose grandparents were among the first to settle in France and ...

Forty years after they began the task – and nearly four hundred years after receiving their first commission – sages in Paris have finally produced a new edition of the definitive French dictionary.

In Borrowed Words: A History of Loanwords in English, I examine how words borrowed from different languages have influenced English throughout its history. The above feature summarizes some of the ...

The Scrabble career of Nigel Richards went from great to astounding this week, after he won the French-language Scrabble World Championships. A New Zealand native, Richards has won several ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. As an Englishman who has lived in France for 10 years, the only anglophobia I’ve ever experienced has come on days ...

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