NEW-INSERT LANGUAGE SUBTAG MODIFICATION for "1694acad"

[Marion Gunn]

On 21 Mar 2007, at 15:09, scríobh Doug Ewell:
> I've already submitted the information as you requested and as the  
> group agreed.  Are you proposing to change it now?  This would  
> require a new two-week review period...

Coincidentally.

Wondering how long before 'françoise' became 'française', I took time  
out from a scheduled garden tidy-up today to trawl the net, where I  
found the following:
"Aprés que l'Académie Françoise eut esté establie par les Lettres  
Patentes du feu Roy, le Cardinal de Richelieu qui par les mesmes  
Lettres avoit esté nommé Protecteur & Chef de cette Compagnie, luy  
proposa de travailler premierement à un Dictionnaire de la Langue  
Françoise, & ensuite à une Grammaire, à une Rhetorique & à une  
Poëtique....".

Now, I happen to have in my garden a Cardinal de Richelieu, which, I  
understand, is rare enough, nowadays, as garden roses go, presumably  
because it only blooms for about a couple of weeks each year.

Fascinating.
mg



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