http://arnoldzwicky.wordpress.com/2012/09/28/aeoa/ A blog mostly about language Fri, 24 May 2013 15:22:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://arnoldzwicky.wordpress.com/2012/09/28/aeoa/#comment-38288 Sun, 30 Sep 2012 02:32:33 +0000 http://arnoldzwicky.wordpress.com/?p=11961#comment-38288 It is not completely true that French ignores accents in alphabetization. If two words differ only in their accents then accented letters are sorted after unaccented ones, and if there is more than one difference in accents then ones later in the word are counted before ones earlier. The usual example is the four words cote, coté, côte, côté, which are in alphabetical order. Though I notice that my Larousse sorts mâcon before maçon.

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