As the French debate spelling changes to their language, linguist Geoff Nunberg suggests that Americans take a closer look at some of the quirks... Changes To French Spelling Make Us Wonder: Why Is ...

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SOMETIMES it really is the little things that count. France faces high unemployment, a divided political establishment and surging xenophobia. But the issue that has the French particularly outraged ...

French speakers will soon have to think twice about how they spell certain words. Changes by the French language council, Académie Française, will simplify the spelling of about 2,400 words, ...

I've seen this before, but it was always an upgrade of Office 2003 to Office 2007. This is a clean install of XP with a clean install of Office 2007. Now spell check is in French. What I've found ...

Knowing how to spell the French word for miniature car earned a Poway teenager the title of spelling bee champion Thursday. Eighth grader Elliott Husseman beat out 103 other spellers in grades six ...

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 ...