by Henriette Walter · Robert Laffont · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782221081655
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«Honni soit qui mal y pense» is the linguistics essay by Henriette Walter, published by Robert Laffont in paperback (364 pages, in French).
Popular science essay on the historical relationship between French and English: it shows how more than two-thirds of the English lexicon comes from French or Latin, analyses false friends and identical words in both languages, and traces the exchanges between France, England and the New World with games and anecdotes.
Work originally published in 2001; the paperback edition includes bibliographic references and indexes.
Suitable for general readers interested in the history of languages, etymology and vocabulary curiosities.
Henriette Walter is a French linguist, emeritus professor of French at the University of Rennes 2, and director of the Phonology Laboratory at the École pratique des hautes études at the Sorbonne. She is known for both her specialized academic work and her popular linguistics publications.
