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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 ...

PARIS — It was a cold but radiant weekend here, the nicest so far this winter. The boulevards of the Right Bank were mobbed with people enticed by post-New Year’s sales. So why did hundreds choose to ...

Don’t know how to spell clafouti? Don’t feel bad. Nearly one in five words misspelled in the final rounds of the Scripps National Spelling Bee is derived from the French language. The odds are worse ...

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 ...