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Alix Renaud

1945–2021

Canada

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Alix Renaud (30 August 1945 – 11 April 2021) was a Haitian-born Canadian writer. He was the son of Joseph M. Renaud and Béatrice Black. He was a professor of oral expression and diction, and he was the inventor of the word pompion, the French (les) pompiers ont ("firefighters have") to describe the agglotination of some words.

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