Québécois (word) la langue française mentions only a territorial meaning for "Québécois". Newspaper editor Lysiane Gagnon has referred to an ethnic sense of the word "Québécois" in both English and French. French expressions employing "Québécois" often appear in both French and English. Québécois (word) Québécois (pronounced ; feminine: Québécoise (pronounced ), ' (fem.: '), or (fem.: ) is a word used primarily to refer to a native or inhabitant of the Canadian province of Quebec, the majority of whom speak French as a mother tongue. It can refer to French spoken in Quebec. It may also be used, with an upper- or
Man (word) if only the Germanic form was known, but the attested Indo-Iranian "manu" virtually excludes the possibility. Moreover, *' is known to have survived in Old English not as ' but as "", the ancestor of the second element of the Modern English word "bridegroom". In the late twentieth century, the generic meaning of "man" declined (but is also continued in compounds "mankind", "everyman", "no-man", etc.). The same thing has happened to the Latin word ': in most of the Romance languages, ', ', ', ' have come to refer mainly to males, with a residual generic meaning. The exception is