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It's still hit and miss. You can still find a lot of up to date government pages that have Quebec without the accent. (Although anything in French will always have the accent.)
When I was a kid in the 70s, I remember quite a few old maps kicking around that had names like Three Rivers (Trois-Rivières), Seven Islands (Sept-Îles), Two Mountains (Deux-Montagnes) and Saint John (St-Jean-sur-Richelieu), and of course Montreal and Quebec without accents.
there are differences but the point is why does English borrow a word from French to mean a certain thing when the French don't use it that way? Why not just create a word or use an existing word?
there are differences but the point is why does English borrow a word from French to mean a certain thing when the French don't use it that way? Why not just create a word or use an existing word?
Why does everyone else use Latin? It's just common usage. English is a jumbled mess of borrowed words from every language. This isn't news to you.
When I was a kid in the 70s, I remember quite a few old maps kicking around that had names like Three Rivers (Trois-Rivières), Seven Islands (Sept-Îles), Two Mountains (Deux-Montagnes) and Saint John (St-Jean-sur-Richelieu), and of course Montreal and Quebec without accents.
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