Wordwatch: Homage
“Homage” is French in origin, but it was naturalised in this country five hundred years ago. So why do many still feel the need to pretentiously “foreignise” it?
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“Homage” is French in origin, but it was naturalised in this country five hundred years ago. So why do many still feel the need to pretentiously “foreignise” it?
Debates about the French language tend to replay old quarrels between societal evolution and normativism – in other words, a clash between conservatives and progressives.
Boris and Macron are making a mess of British-French relations.
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