Catamighty (champagnesheik) wrote in linguaphiles,
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French name origin?

I know Ségolène is a French name, but is it of French origin? Superficially, it looks kind of strange to me, and not very French-y. Is it cognate with names in other languages? I was thinking maybe it could be related to Sigourney…

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  • Russian speech

    I'm supposed to start off my exam with a 5-minutes speech introducing my dissertation. My Russian is very bad, so I deucided to write it out…

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    And I guess I should start off by making clear that I expressly do not mean that in a patronising and/or vaguely creepy sense (:D) but rather that it…

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