quebecois-ness
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.25 in modern English
26
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
5
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Ferlinghetti wondered if the gathering “might be exaggerating Jack’s Quebecois-ness too much,” and noted that one of the great problems for all immigrant Americans is “the fantastic speed with which they lose their roots.”"
- "But then again, and to contradict many of your charges of narrow ethnocentrism, etc., I speak fluent Spanish, love Cuban cuisine, have conducted lectures on Latin American politics and society in Spanish, and am Godfather to an adorable Cuban-American little girl. None of which reduces my Quebecois-ness one bit."
- "Instead, French as vehicular language offers immigrants a passport to the Quebecois public sphere, a means of breaking their imposed silence and of expressing their differential “Quebecois-ness”[…]"
- "At the beginning of her career in Quebec, Bujold represented a modern Quebecoise but as she embarks on a series of transnational migrations, her Quebecois-ness is muted."