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 ...

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 ...

The difference between 'I am sure your sister is doing fine' and the clearly raunchier 'I am on your sister, she is doing fine' in French? A circumflex accent – commonly known as a 'little hat'. This ...

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 ...

Everyone became a bit furious at the thought of losing the circumflex from French. But the French (and people who don’t want all those GCSE lessons to have been in vain) need not worry – it’s not ...

Education officials fended off the criticism, denying they had ordered the eradication of the circumflex – the mark often found above letters in French and other languages, as in “â” – or even that it ...

Changes were first approved by the Academie Francaise in 1990 Paris: French linguistic purists voiced online anger Thursday at the loss of one of their favourite accents — the pointy little ...