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Brewer's: Langue d'Oil
Walloon or Germanised Gallo-Romaic; so called from their pronouncing our yes as oil (o.e) These Gauls lived north of the Loire; the Provencals dwelt south of that river.
Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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