St. Louis?

Alan Hartley ahartley at d.umn.edu
Tue Mar 30 02:04:44 UTC 2004


Pain Court is also a town in Ontario: see
http://www.paincourt.ca/history.htm

Pain in Quebec French is [peN] (Dict. Hist. du Français Québécois, 1998,
s.v) The DHFQ has a lengthy entry on pain, naming several types, but not
pain court. Nothing in Dictionnaire canadien-français (1894). A quick
web-troll suggests that pain court is, in metropol. Fr. at least, a
'short (not long) loaf of bread'. Perhaps at St. Louis there was some
sort of topographic reference, as often with sugar loaf, for example.

Alan



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