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 ...
New editions of textbooks in France will look a little different. References to onions? You'll see the word ognon rather than oignon. A tale about a centipede? The many-legged insect will be known as ...
Like the living creatures who speak them, languages evolve over time. New words are constantly added to dictionaries, old ones fade out of fashion and meanings shift. But linguistic changes aren't ...
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