Place where you need English and French both strange et normal (8)

I believe the answer is:
montreal
'place where you need english and french both' is the definition.
I can't judge whether this defines the answer.
'strange et normal' is the wordplay.
'strange' indicates an anagram.
'et'+'normal'='etnormal'
'etnormal' with letters rearranged gives 'MONTREAL'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for montreal that I've seen before include "Ran motel (anag) - Canadian city" , "Largest city of Quebec" , "Neal and Mort are gone to Canada" , "somewhere abroad" , "Let Norma go to the city" .)
