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Compare Logudorese kentu with Italian cento, Spanish ciento and French cent.
Compare морж ( morž ) in Russian, mursu in Finnish, moršâ in Saami, and morse in French.
Compare Latin, Italian vita, Brazilian Portuguese vida with a fully occlusive, European Portuguese vida, Castilian Spanish vida with an interdental ( as in English ⟨ th ⟩ in " this ") and French vie, where the is elided as in Andalusian ( vida ' life ').
( Compare the Statue of Liberty, created by a French artist, with a copy in both Paris and Saint-Étienne.
Compare palatalization in Jèrriais pièche with French place in this bilingual placename sign
: Aims: Compare the ease of acquisition of Esperanto with that of French.
Compare the plurals of cognate nouns in Romanian, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Catalan, French and Latin:
Compare: English Welsh, Flemish Dutch waalsch " Walloons ", German welsch " French ", Switzerland German Churwelsch " Churer Romance " ( an old name for Romansh, which used to be spoken in Chur ), Old Norse Valir " Roman ; French ".
Compare French verge ( yard ).

Compare and earlier
of Chinese n. and English n. Compare earlier Japlish n., Spanglish n. Compare also Hinglish n. 2, Singlish n. 2
Compare with the red and white rose iconography of English Wars of the Roses, as imagined by Walter Scott earlier in the 19th century, in Anne of Geierstein ( 1829 ).

Compare and ).
( Compare with stucco ).
( Compare with symbol grounding ).
( Compare the later Chaldean Oracles ).
Compare Canadian ( and British ) travelled, counselling, and controllable ( always doubled in British, more often than not in Canadian ) to American traveled, counseling, and controllable ( only doubled when stressed ).
Compare bona tago ; bonaj tagoj ; bonan tagon ; bonajn tagojn ( good day / days ).
( Compare this with Chirp spread spectrum, which uses extremely wide frequency deviations to achieve processing gains comparable to traditional, better-known spread-spectrum modes ).
Compare those to Norman hoguinané and the obsolete customs in Jersey of crying ma hodgîngnole, and in Guernsey of asking for an oguinane, for a New Year gift ( see also La Guiannee ).
Compare abugida, where each grapheme typically represents a syllable but where characters representing related sounds are similar graphically ( typically, a common consonantal base is annotated in a more or less consistent manner to represent the vowel in the syllable ).
( Compare with the Catalan hidromel, Galician aiguamel, Portuguese hidromel, Italian idromele and Spanish hidromiel and aguamiel ).
( Compare the anthropological Sapir – Whorf hypothesis ).
Compare dBW, which is referenced to one watt ( 1000 mW ).
Compare 1 Samuel 15: 33 ).
Compare Barnette v. State, 481 So. 2d 788, 792 ( Miss. 1985 ) ( cited by the Court ), with McGowen v. State, 859 So. 2d 320, 339-340 ( Miss. 2003 ) ( the Sixth Amendment does not require confrontation with the particular analyst who conducted the test ).
Etymology: An orthographic and phonetic blend of Mrs n .< sup > 1 </ sup > and miss n .< sup > 2 </ sup > Compare mizz n. The pronunciation with final /- z / would appear to have arisen as a result of deliberate attempts to distinguish between this word and miss n .< sup > 2 </ sup >; compare mizz n., and perhaps also Miz n .< sup > 1 </ sup > -- n .: Etymology: Representing the spoken realization of Ms n .< sup > 2 </ sup > ( see discussion at that entry ).
Compare this with " Prescribing the Symptom " ( below ).
Compare achterúítgang ( deterioration ) and áchteruitgang ( back exit ).
Compare Ǎ ǎ Ě ě Ǐ ǐ Ǒ ǒ Ǔ ǔ ( caron ) with Ă ă Ĕ ĕ Ĭ ĭ Ŏ ŏ Ŭ ŭ ( breve ).
( Compare with the obsolescence of stroboscopes as used to adjust the speed of record players ).
Compare to the Ukrainian bisy ( used always in plural ) or bisytysia ( to go mad ).
( Compare with diagram on main synthesizer page ).
This letter should not be confused with u-caron, which is used to indicate u in the third tone of Chinese language pinyin ; Compare ( caron ) with ( breve ).
( Compare, below, the frequent use of raḥman in the Quran ).
Compare with Gold standard ( test ).
Compare the following reconstructions of the name 卑彌呼 in " Archaic " or " Middle Chinese " ( Bernhard Karlgren, Li Fanggui, and William H. Baxter ), " Early Middle Chinese " ( Edwin G. Pulleyblank ), and, historically closest, " Late Han Chinese " ( Axel Schuessler ).

French and hyperbole
It is not surprising that Albert Camus, also a man of the theatre, could declare without hyperbole: " in the history of the French theatre, there are two periods: before Copeau and after Copeau.

French and earlier
In spite of the armistice negotiated by Amadee two years earlier, the war between Bishop Guillaume of Lausanne and Louis of Savoy was still going on, and although little is known about it, that little proves that it was yet another phase of the struggle against French expansion and was closely interwoven with the larger conflict.
A British writer, Richard Haestier, in a book, Dead Men Tell Tales, recalls that in the turmoil preceding the French Revolution the body of Henry 4,, who had died nearly 180 years earlier, was torn to pieces by a mob.
In French, and sometimes ( especially earlier ) also in English, the city is known as Aix-la-Chapelle ().
At the age of 25, he was elected a member of the French Academy of Sciences, France's most elite scientific society, for an essay on street lighting and in recognition of his earlier research.
Another French inventor by the name of Douglas Grasso had a failed prototype of Pierre Lallement's bicycle several years earlier.
Ironically, the rise of infantry in the early 16th century coincided with the " golden age " of heavy cavalry ; a French or Spanish army at the beginning of the century could have up to half its numbers made up of various kinds of light and heavy cavalry, whereas in earlier medieval and later 17th century armies the proportion of cavalry was seldom more than a quarter.
Cassatt had befriended Degas and Pissarro years earlier when she joined Pissarro's newly formed French Impressionist group and gave up opportunities to exhibit in the United States.
In January 2012, a work stolen 30 years earlier from a French museum was returned.
It is not until the 13th-century French prose romances, including the Lancelot-Grail and the Post-Vulgate Cycle, that Camelot began to supersede Caerleon, and even then, many descriptive details applied to Camelot derive from Geoffrey's earlier grand depiction of the Welsh town.
The Corsican language has been influenced by the languages of the major powers taking an interest in Corsican affairs ; earlier by those of the Medieval Italian powers: Tuscany ( 828 – 1077 ), Pisa ( 1077 – 1282 ) and Genoa ( 1282 – 1768 ), more recently by France ( 1768 – present ), which, since 1789, has promulgated the official Parisian French.
The word dragon entered the English language in the early 13th century from Old French dragon, which in turn comes from Latin draconem ( nominative draco ) meaning " huge serpent, dragon ," from the Greek word δράκων, drakon ( genitive drakontos, δράκοντος ) " serpent, giant seafish ", which is believed to have come from an earlier stem drak -, a stem of derkesthai, " to see clearly ," from Proto-Indo-European derk-" to see " or " the one with the ( deadly ) glance.
David, however, made his career precisely by challenging what he saw as the earlier rigidity and conformity of the French Royal Academy's approach to art.
In an earlier work from 1793 dealing with the ideals and politics of the French Revolution, Beiträge zur Berichtigung der Urteile des Publikums über die Französische Revolution ( Contributions to the Correction of the Public's Judgment concerning the French Revolution ), he called Jews a " state within a state " that could " undermine " the German nation.
Portugal lost part of Guinea to French West Africa, including the center of earlier Portuguese commercial interest, the Casamance River region.
The word may have come via the French jurisprudence, which is attested earlier.
The history of Lebanon covers the history of the modern Republic of Lebanon and the earlier emergence of Greater Lebanon under the French Mandate for Syria, as well as the previous history of the region, covered by the modern state.
An earlier recorded use of the term was in 1843 by the French physiologist François Magendie.
The palaeographer must know, first, the language of the text ( that is, a 21st-century English or French speaker must become expert in the relevant earlier forms of these languages ); and second, the historical usages of various styles of handwriting, common writing customs, and scribal / notarial abbreviations.
Because of this and his earlier support for De Gaulle he became Governor General of the Afrique Equatoriale Française ( AEF ) in 1940, the first not white to achieve this position in French colonial history.
However, incompatibility had started with the earlier decision to unusually adopt positive video modulation for French broadcast signals.
Some earlier changes — such as bölem to replace fırka, " political party "— also failed to meet with popular approval ( fırka has been replaced by the French loanword parti ).
It resembles an earlier French fabliau by Pierre Anfons called " Le revenant.
Filomena's humorous tale probably derives from an earlier French fabliau.
The mine's name is French for " the old mountain ", and this is also reflected in its German name, Altenberg ( earlier, Alten Galmei-Berg ).

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