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Paris Travel Blog

01Sep

Jet Lag: Adjusting to a New Time Zone Before, During and After Your Flight

Weill Cornell Medicine AU G U ST 8 , 2 024 When you travel by plane from one time zone to another, you may suffer from jet lag. Jet lag—a […]

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06Aug

Paris History Avec a Hemingway (Dalida)

by Claudine Hemingway and Krystal Kenney About Claudine: Claudine has been a regular on Krystal’s Podcast: La Vie Creative, A Paris Podcast, telling us about some AMAZING women over the […]

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05Jul

Sink or Swim in the Seine

by Anne Swardson  | France, Paris | Anne left the Washington Post to be a Paris-based feature editor for Bloomberg News. There, she was part of teams that won awards from the Overseas Press […]

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02Jun

Why is Greenwich, England, the Center of Time?

By HistoryFacts.com About the website:  I find these stories so interesting and wanted to share yet another … especially for those of us who love language and are curious about […]

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07May

Walking the Spirit: Black History in the Heart of Paris with Julia Browne

Cultivating Creativity: The Essence of Black History in France About the Podcast: France has been motivating people for decades to create and live a more inspired life. La Vie Creative […]

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04Apr

Why There Are So Many French Words in English

French has influenced more than just the modern English vocabulary, however. It also changed pronunciation in many ways — such as not pronouncing a final unaccented “e” on a word, as well as how “g” now sounds in words such as “mirage.” Grammar and spelling were impacted, too: For instance, titles such as “consul general” retained the French manner of following a noun with the adjective, while words such as “queen” and “should” were spelled as “cwen” and “scolde” in Old English, until the French influence changed the language landscape forever.

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