Ah, I totally knew about that, just not what they were called. I love cognates so much in french. (Still bitter that English doesn't count as a romance language.)

I remember learning about how English developed was the best part of my (early, early, early) British Literature Class (aka become all the cool writers were born).

I'll probaly send you an email once I've scoped out what the library has to offer and hit up the reference libraians - I've already found twice the info on Parisian French then I did on Quebecois.

Thanks! Enjoy the glorious coffee.