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au courant ( ) adj. Informed on current affairs; up-to-date. Fully familiar; knowledgeable. [French : au , in the + courant , Home & Garden · Law & Legal Issues · Literature & Language · Miscellaneous · Religion & Spirituality...
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Definition of au courant in the Online Dictionary. Meaning of au courant. Word / Article Starts with. Ends with. Text. New: Language forums from the Raza Development Fund should come as no surprise to anyone au courant of recent...
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But first... a look at this crazy language: almost must always come immediately before the word or phrase it modifies, to avoid confusion and to be plain right. "I almost gave her a hundred dollars" is not the same as "I gave her almost a hundred dollars." Therefore, do not write "There almost was a disaster" if you...
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Feb 4, 2009 Au Courant. Paul Courant's blog about libraries, economics, .... I agree that the Settlement does not give them a monopoly on access to all books, funds for digitization — where was the money supposed to come from?
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Paul N. Courant (Of course, saving on transaction costs won’t be of much value if the basic price is too high, but I expect that the prices will be reasonable, both because there is helpful language in the settlement and because of my reading of the relevant markets.)
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Who would want to do that? You would just run along, hop in, and coast down .... "Come on Julian, Let's go outside and play!" He would say, over and over again. ..... Was it breaking one of the original rules in the English language?
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Approximately 40% of English vocabulary is of French or Oïl language origin, most derived from, or transmitted au courant: up-to-date; abreast of current affairs. ..... one does not argue over differences in taste, to each his own.
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AU COURANT. Culture, style, arts and media in Toronto, Canada, The World. .... The designer's goal was to come up with a design scheme that would evoke the Unfortunately she is not wearing a hat in her appearance, but does claim she made ..... The opera—for which Wainwright wrote the score and a French-language
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Also, they're now ``ATA Airlines.'' This is supposed not to be pleonastic because ATA is no longer an acronym, just a name -- sort of a decorative collection of letters, like Kodak, but pronounced ``ayteeay.'' It's as if they had a little switch attached to the language, which turns the significance of an established...
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Never before have so many immigrants come from a single country -- Mexico -- or from a single linguistic source -- Spanish-speaking Latin America. Since 1970, more than half of the estimated 20 million "An attachment to one's home country, culture and language can be very positive" for immigrant children in U.S.
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