Glossary entry (derived from question below)
French term or phrase:
à l'angle
English translation:
at the corner
French term
United States
Precise and on time; lawyer/writer.
Native in: English 
, Spanish
Works in: English to Spanish, Spanish to English, French to English, and 7 more.
à l'angle
Sorry... can't think tonight. And I am worried about this one... it's like in Spanish, we say, el cuchillo (the knife) in the road where as in English we say the fork... so I don't want to get the wrong utensil!
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Adsion Liu
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Oct 26, 2007 07:11: French Foodie changed "Level" from "PRO" to "Non-PRO"
Oct 26, 2007 07:25: writeaway changed "Field" from "Bus/Financial" to "Other" , "Field (specific)" from "Business/Commerce (general)" to "General / Conversation / Greetings / Letters"
Non-PRO (3): Karen Stokes, David Goward, French Foodie
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Proposed translations
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at the corner
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Note added at 1 heure (2007-10-26 05:47:15 GMT)
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Allez-y, Silviantonia! Work too hard is no good either:-)
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Note added at 11 heures (2007-10-26 16:30:11 GMT) Post-grading
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Hehe, sleep tightly with a sweet dream after:-)
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veratek
: my reading too
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Thanks alot Vera!
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Sonia Geerlings
: I would put "streets" after the names, i.e. ...at the corner of Windsor and Laviolette streets...
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Thanks alot Sonia!
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David Goward
: As Sonia says.
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Thanks David!
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writeaway
: fwiw-in (native) English we would never use the fork here. as Sonia says, at the corner of xx and xx streets.
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Thanks Writeaway!
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Tony M
: And I would even go so far as to say that it would be more natural to say 'on the corner of...'; a 'fork' in a road is quite different ( a V or Y, not an L)
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Thanks Tony!
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Nina Iordache
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Thanks Nina!
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Charles Hawtrey (X)
: Tony's quite right, as usual. Maybe in CDN you don't need the word 'streets' - in the US you wouldn't.
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Thank you Charlets, but sometimes "Street" is really important...even in Canada
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AllegroTrans
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thank you Allegro
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Discussion
When I posted the question I had already translated the passage, as I explained to Adsion, but when I am very very tired I do not always trust myself...