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A kind of perversity seems to pervade many of the words which we have borrowed from the French. Thus curate (French vicaire); Vicar (French curé).
Encore (French bis).
Epergne (French surtout); Surtout (French pardessus).
Screw (French vis), whereas the French écrou we call a nut; and our vice is étau in French.
Some still say à lʹoutrance (French à outrance).
We say double entendre, the French à deux ententes.
⁂ The reader will easily call to mind other examples.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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