"Where do you stand on the circumflex?" I asked our friend Jane, who was visiting from Ohio, where she teaches college students French.
"I'm for it," she said without hesitation, adding that she is always against spelling reform, and anything that distances a language from its history.
For me it's about aesthetics, and their ability to evoke. I don't want my three-star lodging in Paris to go from being an hôtel to a hotel.
