Suggested new spellings for more than 2,000 French words have sparked controversy. The Academie Francaise proposed changes in 1990, including the deletion of the circumflex accent (ˆ) and hyphens in ...
News that schoolbook publishers in France will be adopting changes to around 2,400 words — including the removal of the circumflex accent from many — caused an uproar in France recently. Les Français ...
In future the French can go for a picnic, not a pique-nique. While doing so, they can choose to eat an ognon, not an oignon. And if they write a postcard – or more likely send a text message – they ...
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