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<p><b>French orthography</b> encompasses the <a href="page.php?w=spelling">spelling</a> and <a href="page.php?w=punctuation">punctuation</a> of the <a href="page.php?w=French_language">French language</a>. It is based on a combination of <a href="page.php?w=phoneme">phonemic</a> and historical principles. The spelling of words is largely based on the pronunciation of <a href="page.php?w=Old_French">Old French</a> -1200 AD, and has stayed more or less the same since then, despite enormous changes to the pronunciation of the language in the intervening</p><p>
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