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Vive la difference

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WILL the French intelligen­tsia follow our woke lead and try to make its language gender neutral?

This will be difficult because pronouns, titles and even nouns are gender specific.

I suspect the Academie Francaise will be loath to change the long-establishe­d rules of grammar to placate a noisy minority. It will be hard to persuade the French that ‘vive la difference’ is no longer an appropriat­e expression.

M. HORGAN, Heswall, Wirral.

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