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‘The practice of omitting the grave accent on the preposition A (whatever the reason of it may be) is all but universal.’—Mr. E. G. W. BRAUNHOLTZ, M.A., Ph.D., _Reader in the Romance Languages in the University of Cambridge_. [H. H.] [80] ‘The rule about è instead of é, as in collège instead of collége, should be strictly adhered to, as it now is by most French people. However, é cannot be changed into è unless it have that sound; hence it is not right to say Liègeois, for the sound is that of é; but Liège is correct. Note that Liégeois takes an e after the g.’—Mr. LÉON DELBOS. [81] The list is from Gasc’s _Dictionary of the French and English Languages_: G. Bell & Sons, 1889. [82] The English practice, never to put a space before a comma, is regarded by the best French printers as bad. ‘This vicious practice’ (i.e. putting no space before a comma), says M. Théotiste Lefevre, ‘which appears to us to have no other motive than the negligence of the compositor, tends unhappily, from day to day, to get introduced also into French composition.’—_Guide pratique du compositeur et de l’imprimeur typographes_ (p. 196 _n_.) par T. Lefevre. Paris, Firmin-Didot, 1883.—H. H. [83] St-Germain, Ste-Catherine, l’église de St-Sulpice, St-Hilaire, la St-Jean, are however met with in railway time-tables, &c. [84] Mm. Km. Hm. These capitals and all the metric contractions are authorized by the French Minister of Public Instruction.—H. H. [85] That is, words foreign to French.—H. H.
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