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Tuesday 27 January 2015
Double-take, # 131
This word came into English from French and, like most loanwords from French, lost its accent. As John Holloway has discovered, Disney — or at least some franchise riding on the back of Frozen — is trying, in its own mangled way, to put it back:
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