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For those who know me from IB, you might remember that I had mentioned a few time that many people in New Francy (*here* the Southern part of Quebec) spoke a Langue d'oil dialect called laurentian. For those unfamiliar with it, the idea was basicaly to take the divergences found in Quebec french (when compared to standard french) and applied them as general rules thus creating something which is clearly part of the Northern france family of dialects without fitting neatly as a substrate of one of them. I have now finished the basic lexicon http://marcpasquin.iquebec.com/ib-lau-intro.html and more will be added as I developt the "Grand Master Plan" of phonetic mutations. In term of grammar, Laurentian use a simple method of conjugation with only one form per tense (the person is expressed strictly by the pronoun). "To be", for example, is expressed by "Étions" (past) "Étons" (present) & "Serons" (future). If anyone as suggestion of possible differences in grammar I could integrate based on useage in non-standard french, let me known. Marc Pasquin