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
Shina (word) has survived in a few non-political compound words in both Chinese and Japanese. For example, the South and East China Seas are called and respectively in Japanese (prior to World War II, the names were written as and ), and one of the Chinese names for Indochina is (). "Shinachiku" ( or simply ), a ramen topping made from dried bamboo, also derives from the term "Shina", but in recent years the word has replaced this as a more politically correct name. Some terms that translate to words containing the "Sino-" prefix in English retain "Shina" within them, albeit written