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francize
DCHP-2 (Oct 2016)
Spelling variants:francise
v. — Quebec, French relations
to adopt French as the official working language in an institution, such as a school or company.
Type: 3. Semantic Change — The term has specialized in focus and has come to mean not just 'to make French' more generally, but to promote French as the working language in an institution. As Chart 1, shows, the term is more than five times as frequent in Canada than in the US, though it is most frequent within Canada in the province of Quebec (see Chart 2).
See also Gage-3, s.v. "francize", which is marked "Cdn.", ITP Nelson, s.v. "francize", COD-2 marks it as "Cdn (Que)".
See also Gage-3, s.v. "francize", which is marked "Cdn.", ITP Nelson, s.v. "francize", COD-2 marks it as "Cdn (Que)".
Quotations
1971
Why impose a 40% quota of French on their education system, they know how better than we; how to Francize their schools.
1974
The bill outlines a five-year master plan to "Francize" Quebec, including provisions to coax or pressure firms into switching to French and controls on the freedom of parents to choose the language of education for their children.
1977
At the start, the Government could take away the permits and grants of companies that refused to francize their operations as well as well as take them to court.
1988
Francization of large companies under Bill 101 had not been fully implemented, he said, and patience was required to achieve the goal. Even more patience would be required to francize the more than 25,000 small- and medium-sized companies in Quebec.
1991
Brian Mulroney and the party in power, were given a great chance to govern wisely and lengthily. Instead, by championing and concentrating on Quebec's ambitions, they magnified provincial frictions and fostered disunity by dwelling heavily on biculturalism. Ignoring the costs of installing unpopular programs and the spiralling debt that ensued, they drivelled over francising English Canada and anglicising French Canada - and failed in both.
1996
But board chairman Marcus Tabachnick and the francophone parents believe the French high school needs an entirely French milieu to "francize" its largely allophone clientele.
2008
Language hawks are eager to francize everything from English CEGEPs and bebesitters to our children's womb tunes.
References
- Gage-3
- ITP Nelson
- COD-2
Images
Chart 1: Internet Domain Search, 26 Sep. 2012
