Their funny last words prove that this is really how the world ends: not with a bang, but with some laughter. Eighteenth-century French composer Jean-Philippe Rameau was considered one of the most ...

The English would take things that were French and turn them into their own parlance, or add their own special flavor to the pronunciation of words. STAMBERG: Why do these words disappear?

You’ll hear this French word in plenty of situations - if your ... A synonym might be drôle (funny). Use it like this Il est marrant ce type. Il pourrait faire du stand-up.

They met, rather aptly, in the village of Marans (which sounds like the French word for "funny", marrant). During a weekend of festivities, the convention added Trécon, from the département ...

Standup comedian Jacques Silvère Bah, known as Le Magnific, played with French and African words and accents at a humor festival in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, in February. Arlette Bashizi for The New ...