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French Language Police

Last week the French ‘language police’ approved the feminization of professional titles // Four v...

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13.57 5 Mar 2019


French Language Police


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13.57 5 Mar 2019


Last week the French ‘language police’ approved the feminization of professional titles // Four vacancies — lifelong tenures — have opened in the French ‘language police’ since December 2016. Three times they have voted, most recently in late January, and three times they have failed to achieve a majority. Paris correspondent John Lichfield gives us the lowdown.


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