Langue dʹOil
. Walloon or Germanised Gallo-Romaic; so called from their pronouncing our yes as oil (o-e). These Gauls lived north of the Loire; the Provencals dwelt south of that river.
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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.