ORDER IN COURT!
A lawyer; it could also refer to the key ingredient in guacamole. Yum!
What is “avocat”?
Preuve admissible
What is admissible evidence?
"Je me souviens”, meaning this in English, is inscribed on Quebec’s provincial coat of arms and featured prominently on its license plate
What is “I remember”?
Looks like I’ll have to turn the car around as I drive into one of these dead ends
What is a cul-de-sac?
A vegetable dish made famous from a Disney-Pixar film
What is Ratatouille?
All you need to do to French-ify this signed and sworn document is to say it in a fancy accent
What is “affidavit”?
Alcoolique
What is alcoholic?
This explorer founded Quebec City and established New France as a permanent French colony in North America. Don’t let down your social studies teacher now!
Who is Samuel de Champlain?
This hyphenated word describes new and experimental ideas and methods in art, music, or literature; it also identifies a radical group of political reformists in 19th century France
What is avant-garde?
A famous Quebecois dish made with fries, cheese curds and gravy
What is poutine?
This name for a hearing to determine a question of law, including the admissibility of evidence, comes from the French for “look-say”
What is a voir dire
Conférence préparatoire au procès
What is a pre-trial conference?
You might see a lot of “chums” and “blondes” out and about on Valentines’ Day, Quebec slang for these
What is boyfriends and girlfriends
It’s a dish of beaten eggs cooked in a frying pan and served plain or with a savoury or sweet topping or filling
What is an omelette?
A vegetable commonly referred to as “apple of the earth” in French
What is a potato?
It’s French for “file”, but it means the same thing in English even when untranslated
What is “dossier”?
Agent de la paix
What is a peace officer?
This captain of the Montreal Canadiens scored a crucial game-tying goal at the 2026 Milano Cortina Olympics against Czechia
Who is Nick Suzuki?
I could make a pinata out of this malleable mixture of paper and glue (or paper, flour, and water) that hardens once dry
What is papier-mâché?
This bubbly drink comes from this region of France
What is Champagne?
Court has been opened and housekeeping matters are out of the way. Now, “la couronne va commencer les soumissions”
What is “The Crown will begin its submissions”?
Un greffier/une greffière
What is a court clerk (m, f)?
As an ancient symbol of the French monarchy, it is one of the most recognized symbols of Quebec and is featured four times in each quadrant of the Quebec provincial flag
What is the fleur-de-lis?
It’s a person on the staff of an ambassador
What is an attaché?
A spiky yellow fruit (and the home of Spongebob) with a very different name in French
What is ananas?