Every day The Local publishes a French word or phrase of the day, focusing on colloquialisms, slang, sayings (and a bit of swearing) – you know, the type of French you might not learn in the ...

Tricoteuse - roughly pronounced tree-koe-tuzz - is the French term for a woman who knits, or a knitting woman. The masculine version would be tricoteur. While the word may appear to have a simple ...

These are all Anglo-Norman French words. Our vocabulary for food is full of them. British legal terminology is full of French words too, like to aid and abet. A lot of English higher-end vocab ...