Publishers in France are altering the spellings of around 2,400 words in textbooks and will drop the hat-shaped circumflex accent in some cases.... New editions of textbooks in France will look a ...

Members of the French Academy listen to French politician Simone Veil (on television screen), dressed in the French Academician's uniform of a black jacket embroidered in green laurel leaves, as she ...

French linguistic purists voiced online anger Thursday at the loss of one of their favourite accents -- the pointy little "circumflex" hat that sits on top of certain vowels. A change in the spelling ...

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 ...

School of Advanced Study, University of London and University of London provide funding as members of The Conversation UK. Politicians, particularly those on the right and far-right, voiced their ...

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 ...