I did a google search for French-English on-line dictionaries. I went to a few of them and entered both calendre and calendr� and neither words exist. Here is an example of a French-English dictionary page:
http://humanities.uchicago.edu/orgs/ARTFL/forms_unrest/FR-ENG.html However, if you spell it calandre, then you get a result: ARTFL Project: French-English Dictionary Searching for: calandre ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- calandre = calender *[noun-feminine] ARTFL Project: French-English Dictionary Searching for: calendar ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- calendrier = calendar *[noun-masculine] Hope this helps Euric ----- Original Message ----- From: "John S. Ward" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, 2004-02-16 19:45 Subject: [USMA:28736] RE: Metric in Montgomery Co. -- Getting even more OFF TOPIC! > On Monday 16 February 2004 01:47, Bill Potts wrote: > > I would certainly hope that "calendre" is rarely used. There's no such word > > in English. (It's French.) > > If it's a French word, then what does it mean? I've seen "les calendes" and > "calendrier," but never "calendre." > >
