February 2012
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Panache is a word of French origin that carries the connotation of a flamboyant...
– Panache - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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(via The Sweater by Sheldon Cohen - NFB)
Canadian cultural education continues…
A quote from “Le chandail de hockey” (“The Hockey Sweater”), one of Carrier’s contes, is reprinted on the back of the Canadian five-dollar bill. The story is considered by many to be a literary allegory for the linguistic and cultural tensions between English and French Canadians,...