You can imagine my surprise
C'est La Vie talks to Daniel Poliquin.
"For 30 years, demographers have been debating whether francophones outside of Quebec will disappear. It's a politically charged and emotional topic. But Franco-Ontarian author, essayist and translator Daniel Poliquin is trying to humanize the debate. In fact, he says he has met an assimilated francophone who was in perfectly good health!" (real audio)
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The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is senescence
| source : web1913 |
Senescence \Se*nes"cence\, n. [See {Senescent}.]
The state of growing old; decay by time.
| source : wn |
senescence
n : the property characteristic of old age [syn: {agedness}]