{"id":42748,"date":"2021-12-26T18:12:01","date_gmt":"2021-12-26T18:12:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/?p=42748"},"modified":"2021-12-26T18:12:02","modified_gmt":"2021-12-26T18:12:02","slug":"french-streets-and-alleys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/french-streets-and-alleys\/","title":{"rendered":"French: streets and alleys"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2>Self-tutoring about French: the tutor mentions a connection between it and English.<\/h2>\n<p>\nShoveling the driveway one of numerous times recently, I came to wonder what &#8220;driveway&#8221; is in French. Curiously, I can&#8217;t remember it from the French I learned through grade 12.<\/p>\n<p>\nI looked it up today, and got the result &#8220;all&eacute;e&#8221;. So &#8220;driveway&#8221; is &#8220;all&eacute;e&#8221; in French.<\/p>\n<p>\nOne can&#8217;t help but notice the similarity between &#8220;all&eacute;e&#8221; and &#8220;alley&#8221;. Alleys are meant to run perpendicular to streets and be for local access as opposed to passing through. Perhaps those were the first &#8220;driveways.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Source:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.collinsdictionary.com\/dictionary\/english-french\/driveway\">collinsdictionary.com<\/a><\/p>\nJack of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\">Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane,<\/a> Campbell River, BC.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Self-tutoring about French: the tutor mentions a connection between it and English. Shoveling the driveway one of numerous times recently, I came to wonder what &#8220;driveway&#8221; is in French. Curiously, I can&#8217;t remember it from the French I learned through &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/french-streets-and-alleys\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">French: streets and alleys<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-french"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42748"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42748\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42750,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42748\/revisions\/42750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}