Aug 21, 2010 · As reported by the NOAD, the pronunciation is |ˈfɔrˌteɪ| or |fɔrt|, whenever forte means a thing at which someone excels, or loud/loudly. In the first case, the origin of the word is from a French word fort (masculine), or forte (feminine), from Latin fortis; in the second case the origin is the Italian word forte, from the Latin fortis ...

Aug 31, 2014 · I know the long odds, and hedging is my forte. Have always been fortunate in calling seven and nicking it. As to cricket, when I played last summers, the amateurs declared they never knew such a stop behind, it would have done you good to see the notches I got off on my own bat, and I astonished the oldest of them with bowling.

Jan 17, 2012 · They're essentially synonymous: Proclivity is 'leaning to', propensity is 'nearness to' and predilection is 'preference for'. Worry about something more significant like the misuse of the words irony and disinterest or the mispronunciation of the the words route and forte.

Nov 22, 2019 · The closest definition I could find is that of the heteronym:. A heteronym (also known as a heterophone) is a word that has a different pronunciation and meaning from another word but the same spelling.

May 30, 2021 · There isn't a difference in meaning according to any dictionary I consulted. Collins, Macmillan, Dictionary.com (American Heritage), Cambridge, and Merriam-Webster all either define one in terms of the other ("and so on: and so forth") or have a joint entry for both terms.

It's a French expression meaning pure-blooded (the literal translation) or thoroughbred. In the example, he's saying that it's a quintessential example of being argumentative. I'm not aware of a famous literary usage, but French literature is not my forte.

Sep 12, 2014 · From what I gathered on the Web, "connoisseur" is spelled that way because it is derived from the Old French verb "connoître" (to know) which has been spelled "connaître" for close to two centuries...

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English is not my forte. But here is my two cents. IN is correct since competitiveness is an event that must occur in a population. In this case the population is the EU labor market. Change the word competitiveness to murderousness and it will be clearer. :)