le Languedoc : this old province of southern France was

so called from the Romance dialect spoken in the south, the langue d'oc, oc being the équivalent of ' yes. ' The language of the north, in which the affirmative was oil, was similarly called langue d' oil.

7. une tache dans le soleil, for dans le soleil une tache, so

as to hâve the relative pronoun close to its antécédent. Distinguish between tache, ' stain,' ' spot,' and tâche, ' task.'

8. en engourdissement, for dans l'engourdissement. II. changer de système : cf. note, p. 55 1. 29.