[Vwoolf] take that Mr Ramsay

[Diana Swanson]

Thanks much, Mark, for a chuckle this Saturday morning!

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Subject: [Vwoolf] take that Mr Ramsay


LONDON - In France, the land of Molière, questions of language are so sacred that every Thursday the "immortals," the guardians of the French language at the Académie Française, meet to discuss - among other things - proposed changes to the institution's vaunted dictionary.



The last complete edition of the dictionary was published in 1935, according to the academy, and changes evolve over centuries. The newest complete edition is not finished - the authors have reached the letter R.

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(NY Times, Feb 6 2016)
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