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Originally Posted by radius
I think you might need a new dictionary as those are all pretty common words and should be common between British and American usage 
edit: but you're right, I've never heard anybody say "puissant" in English either (lots in French of course...) |
Thank you, I'll take your good advice. I just checked the copyright date of my nice fat "Webster's New World Dictionary of the American Language, College Edition." 1968.