Excerpt from Boyer's French Dictionary: Comprising All the Additions and Improvements of the Latest Paris and London Editions, With a Very Large Number of Useful Words and Phrases, Now First Selected From the Modern Dictionaries of Boiste, Wailly, Catineau, and Others The natural standard for this is the primitive sound by which it is known in the French alphabet, as in ate', and answers to the first letter in the English alphabet, as in fate. The open acute if is so named from being somewhat more 'open than the close , and from the acute accent which it frequently bears. It is found in the' first e of tree, or trompette, and is the Same as in the English words, met, ebb it is always short. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.