1.   A recent casualty is Romance Philology, a publication of the University of California Press, which covers the field of medieval romance languages.

2.   Her father taught romance languages at English High School, her mother had also been a teacher.

3.   She studied romance languages, focusing on French literature, attended antiwar protests, and had no idea what she would do once she graduated.

4.   The son of doctors who moved from Haiti to Saratoga County, N.Y., Prosper studied romance languages at Boston College and got his law degree at Pepperdine University.

5.   They hired a Hispanic advertising firm to eliminate translations that too often beat the life out of the nuances of a romance language.