St. Louis?

[Michael Mccafferty]

On Mon, 29 Mar 2004, Alan Hartley wrote:

> Pain Court is also a town in Ontario: see
> http://www.paincourt.ca/history.htm
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> Pain in Quebec French is [peN] (Dict. Hist. du Français Québécois, 1998,

Not sure what [peN] signifies.

In Quebec French "pain" can have two different pronunciations:

[pe~] and [pI~].

Michael



> 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.
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> Alan
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