Dieppe

See also: dieppe

English

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Dieppe (disambiguation)

Inherited from Middle English Depe, from Middle French Diepe; the modern pronunciation is a refashioning after modern French Dieppe.^[1]

The city in New Brunswick was named in memory of the Canadian soldiers who fell during the Dieppe Raid in 1942.

Dieppe

A coastal town in the Seine-Maritime department, Normandy, France.
A city in Westmorland County, New Brunswick, Canada. [From 1946]
Synonym: Leger Corner (historical)

town in Normandy, France

city in New Brunswick, Canada

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 Dobson, E. J. (1957) English pronunciation 1500-1700‎^[1], second edition, volume II: Phonology, Oxford: Clarendon Press, published 1968, →OCLC, § 133, page 653:
A special case of the latter is Dieppe, which in the seventeenth century was pronounced with [iː], being equated with deep in the ‘homophone’ lists of Hodges, Hunt, Fox and Hookes, Strong, Cooper, and Brown. The PresE pronunciation [di(ː)ep] or [djep] is a reformation after Modern French—an all-too-common process in foreign place-names.
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Dieppe

Wikipedia ^fr

The city in New Brunswick was named in memory of the Canadian soldiers who fell during the Dieppe Raid in 1942.

Dieppe m

A coastal town in the Seine-Maritime department, Normandy, France.
A city in Westmorland County, New Brunswick, Canada. [From 1946]
Synonym: Leger Corner (historical)