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Hats off: Many French words losing circumflex accent (2016)<\/h1>\n<\/div>\n

Spelling reform removes accent from ‘ao\u00fbt,’ ‘go\u00fbter,’ ‘cha\u00eene’<\/h3>\n

By\u00a0John Bowman,\u00a0CBC News<\/a><\/span>\u00a0Posted: Feb 04, 2016 8:46 AM ET<\/span>\u00a0Last Updated: Feb 04, 2016 12:39 PM ET<\/p>\n

If you happen to be\u00a0writing in French about tasting oysters and onions on a weekend in August, things are about to change. Starting in September,\u00a0schools in France will teach new spellings<\/a>\u00a0of some words in a bid to simplify\u00a0the written language.<\/p>\n

Under the spelling reforms, the circumflex over i and u (or\u00a0\u00ee and \u00fb) in many words will be removed. This affects words such as “go\u00fbter” (to taste), “hu\u00eetre” (oyster), and “ao\u00fbt” (August).<\/p>\n

As well, the word “oignon” (onion) will lose its pesky and silent “i” to become “ognon.” And the French word “week-end,” borrowed from English, is among several that are dropping the hyphen.<\/p>\n

The Acad\u00e9mie fran\u00e7aise, the council on French language that decides such things, approved the changes to about 2,400 words in 1990, but it took 26 years for them to make their way to the school system.<\/p>\n

However, despite this\u00a0advance\u00a0notice, many francophones\u00a0aren’t pleased with the news that many words will be losing their beloved little hats. The hashtag\u00a0#ReformeOrthographe was a worldwide Twitter\u00a0trend on Thursday\u00a0morning.<\/p>\n

Some people added extra, unneeded\u00a0circumflexes\u00a0to compensate for the loss.<\/p>\n