bonjour/hi
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editbonjour/hi
- (Montreal) Good day.
- 2021 October 9, Dan Bilefsky, “French Language Laws Renew Rift With Quebec's English Speakers”, in The New York Times[1], retrieved 2021-10-09:
- Such is the alarm about the fragility of French in Quebec that a few years ago the provincial government passed a nonbinding resolution calling for shop attendants to replace “bonjour hi” — a common greeting in bilingual, tourist-friendly Montreal — with just “bonjour.”
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editThis is a bilingual greeting, meant to inform the recipient that the speaker can respond to them in either French or English.
French
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edit- (Montreal, bilingual) hello, good day
- Synonyms: hi/bonjour; bonjour; (familiar) salut
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