que = sinon., or supply d'autre chose

7. Voilà pas le coup de langue ? = Ne voilà-t-il pas le coup de langue ? “ Isn’t that a slander ? ”

Page 63. — i. J’ai du bien assez. Stronger than J'ai assez de bien.

2. avec plus grand que soi = avec celui qui est plus grand que soi.

3. à ma fille reprocher, for reprocher à ma fille. Compare with the inversion cited on page 51, note 4.

4. grand’maman. Without the apostrophe in the earlier éditions. grand' dame below. The Latin adjectives of two endings had no e

in their féminine in French at first, and when the e was added by analogy with adjectives of three endings, certain established phrases were still pronounced as though masculine. Later the grammarians

NOTES

and printers supplied an apostrophe in such cases, supposing an e had been omitted.