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 | | Some recent modifications include the change from software to logiciel, packet-boat to paquebot, and riding-coat to redingote. |
| | The word ordinateur for computer was however not created by the Académie, but by a linguist appointed by IBM (see fr:ordinateur). |
| | Through the Académie, public education, centuries of official control and the role of media, a unified official French language has been forged, but there remains a great deal of diversity today in terms of regional accents and words. |
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