PARISPARIS — Here’s the good news for those who remember struggling through dictation in French class: French spelling has been simplified. Here’s the bad news: Few have noticed, and those who have ...

The French have gotten themselves into one of their recurrent linguistic lathers, this one over the changes in their spelling that will be taking effect in the fall. The changes were originally ...

For some people, the new spelling for onion in French is enough to make them cry. The food may now be spelled ognon along with the traditional oignon in Quebec classrooms, part of a French-language ...

Proposed changes could soon alter the spelling of 2,400 words in the French language. One major change will be the disappearance of the circumflex - and teachers, linguists and social media users ...

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TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. About the Archive This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of online ...

The Academie Francaise want to make changes to the French language that have caused uproar How Maurice Druon would have adored the tohubohu (or should that be tohu-bohu?). Maurice Druon was the writer ...