French Academy

The objects of interest by the road-side, after I had passed the city gate, were, first, the French Academy, which is well worthy of a visit for its pretty grounds, if nothing more.

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Although we know in our hearts that the French Academy is a foolish institution, designed and kept up for the encouragement of mediocrity, correct syntax, and the _status quo_, we still, also in our hearts, admire it and watch its mutations with the respect which we always give to foreign phenomena and usually withold from phenomena British.

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Ryan won the opening race on another Bartley galloper in French Academy, which is part-owned by his wife Tracy, who was on course with the couple's 'good luck charm', son Oliver.

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Before the French Academy existed, dozens of distinct patois and dialects were spoken throughout France, the great variations among them crying out for regularization.3 And while efforts arose in the Early Modern period to standardize English via dictionaries and school curricula, English was not, in the end, to be restrained by any single institution or authoritative body.

The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010

They began calling the for-hire motorized passenger vehicles taxis once the national French Academy determined that taximètre would replace the German taxameter to become official French.xvi Rushed Parisians are, after all, fond of shortening multisyllabic words.xvii

The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010

They began calling the for-hire motorized passenger vehicles taxis once the national French Academy determined that taximètre would replace the German taxameter to become official French.xvi Rushed Parisians are, after all, fond of shortening multisyllabic words.xvii

The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010

Before the French Academy existed, dozens of distinct patois and dialects were spoken throughout France, the great variations among them crying out for regularization.3 And while efforts arose in the Early Modern period to standardize English via dictionaries and school curricula, English was not, in the end, to be restrained by any single institution or authoritative body.

The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010

Likely to be the hit of the forthcoming London film festival - as it has been everywhere it has played since Cannes - French film The Artist will not be officially entered by the French Academy for the foreign film Oscar.

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The American Academy was founded a little over a century ago, partly in imitation of the French Academy.

Howard Kissel: The American Academy Howard Kissel 2011

The American Academy was founded a little over a century ago, partly in imitation of the French Academy.

Howard Kissel: The American Academy Howard Kissel 2011