forte

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Forte/Forté may refer to:

• Forte, /ˈfɔrt/ but often /ˈfɔrteɪ/;.^[1] A person's strong point^[1] e.g. Preparing gourmet cuisine is his forte. The term is derived from the French fort meaning strength, which does not include an acute accent. The latter pronunciation is likely due to a confusion as a false cognate with the musical term below which comes from Italian. For this reason it is sometimes asserted to be incorrect despite having entered common usage, with usage writers recommending the former as more strictly correct. Though the preferred pronunciation does not precisely reflect the French either, where it is pronounced closer to the English word 'for'.^[2]
• Forte (music), a musical dynamic meaning "loudly" or "strong"
• Forte number, an ordering given to every pitch class set
• Forte (fencing), a fencing term for the "strong" part of the blade
• Trust House Forte, a British hotel and catering firm

People

Forte/Forté is a surname, notable people with this name include:

• Allen Forte (1926-), an American music theorist and musicologist
• Anthony Forté, rapper better known as Rappin' 4-Tay
• Bruno Forte (1949-), an Italian theologian and ecclesiastic
• Charles Forte, Baron Forte (1908–2007), a famous hotelier
• Sir Rocco Forte, son of Charles Forte, Baron Forte who inherited the hotel business
• John Forté (1975-), a previously-imprisoned musician
• Joe Forte, an American writer and painter
• Joseph Xavier "Joe" Forte, an American professional basketball player
• Matt Forté, an American football player
• Will Forte (1970-), Orville Willis "Will" Forte IV, a former cast member of Saturday Night Live
• Jonathan Forte (1985-), an English football player, playing for Southampton F.C.

Fictional characters

In some fictional stories, writers choose to use fanciful words such as Forte or Forté as given names or surnames. Characters with such names include:

• Forte, the main antagonist of the direct-to-video animated film Beauty and the Beast: The Enchanted Christmas
• Bass (Mega Man), a fictional video game character whose name in Japan is "Forte"
• Bass.EXE, a fictional character from the MegaMan NT Warrior series who is based on his video game counterpart. His name in Japan is also "Forte"
• Forte Stollen, a fictional character from the Galaxy Angel anime

Technology

• FORTE (satellite), the Fast On-orbit Rapid Recording of Transient Events satellite
• Kia Forte, a mid-size sedan
• Forte 4GL, a proprietary application server
• Forté Agent, an email and news client used on the Windows operating system
• Forte TeamWare, a family of development environments from Sun Microsystems
• Forté for Java, the former name of the Netbeans IDE.
• Manufacturer of photographic film and papers, which went bankrupt in 2007.

Company

• Forte Land, a large-scale real estate company in Shanghai, China
• Forte Group, a former British hotel company
• Forte Design Systems, a high level synthesis software company in San Jose, California

Drum and Bugle Corps

• Forte Drum and Bugle Corps, a Drum and Bugle Corps based in Grand Prairie, Texas

See also

• Fort
• Fortes (disambiguation)

References

1. ^ ^{a b} Fowler, H.W.; Bruchfield, R. W. (2004). Fowler's Modern English Usage (Revised Third ed.). Great Clarendon Street, Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 310. ISBN 978-0-19-861021-2. 
2. ^ "Forte". Merriam-Webster. http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/forte. Retrieved 21 November 2011. 

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