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
Kangaroo word Kangaroo word A kangaroo word is a word that contains letters of another word, in order, with the same meaning. For example: the word "masculine" contains the word "male", which is a synonym of the first word; similarly, the word "observe" contains its synonym "see". The etymology of the phrase "kangaroo word" is from the fact that kangaroos carry their young (known as joeys) in a body pouch. Likewise, "kangaroo words" carry their "joey words" within themselves. "Twin kangaroos" are kangaroo words containing two joey words (for example: "container" features both "tin" and "can"). In contrast, an "anti-kangaroo" word is