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Originally Posted by Louppatient
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Originally Posted by Jack_Trowell
"Le Grande Abbatoir" => correct spelling in french should be "Le Grand Abattoir" ("grande" is the feminine form and "abattoir" only take one "b")
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To be more accurate, it would be "Le grand abattoir", or better yet (IMHO) "L'Abattoir". You could perhaps justify using "Le grand Abattoir" as stylistic effect, but that would be strange.
French uses far less capital letters than english  .
To explain the difference in usage :
- a really big and famous slaughterhouse could be designated by "Le grand abattoir" (or even just "L'abattoir")
- a legendary slaughterhouse could be designated by "L'Abattoir". |
That's why I'm not against using "Le Grand Abattoir" for a really big, famous *and* legendary slaughterhouse
But it's true that the simple "L'Abattoir" implies strongly that it is *the one* and that everybody should know about it, no question needed.
