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A kind of perversity seems to pervade many of the words which we have borrowed from the French. Thus curate (French vicaire); Vicar (French curé).

Encore (French bis).

Epergne (French surtout); Surtout (French pardessus).

Screw (French vis), whereas the French écrou we call a nut; and our vice is étau in French.

Some still say à lʹoutrance (French à outrance).

We say double entendre, the French à deux ententes.

⁂ The reader will easily call to mind other examples.

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Endymion
Enemy
Enfant Terrible (An) [lit., a terrible child]
Enfield Rifle
Enfilade (French)
England
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England’s Darling
Englentyne
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Englishman
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Enlightened Doctor (The)
Enniskillens
Ennius
Enough. (Anglo-Saxon, genoh or genog.)
Ensconce
Ensemble
Ensign

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Encore (French)
Epergne