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Every week, here, the answers to the photo rebus, the quiz and the crossword puzzle.And explanations too!

March 15.Scoop: the macron couple lives with Kenzaburō Ōe, this Japanese, Nobel Prize for Literature, who died at the beginning of the month (Ōe is also a personal friend of any verbicrucist: he offers him an alternative to “egg head” to define OE.) In short, in “l’Obs”, we write Kenzaburô Oé, the Macron couple is invisible.But with a _ on the o, in Kenzaburō and in Ōe, the most widespread spelling, here is a couple of macrons which invites itself before your eyes.

Macron and macron, criticism and diacritic

The macron is a diacritical mark, it is used to distinguish between several letters written almost in the same way.Most often it is a horizontal bar placed above a vowel.We only use it in French for the transcription of foreign words – although we all proposed it one day during dictations to try to camouflage our ignorance (we hesitated between grave and acute to write “event”).Very involved in the orthographic reform of 1990, thanks to which one can also write “event”, the linguist Nina Catach proposed the macron, this horizontal bar, as a replacement for the acute and serious leaning accents, but the solution was refused.Neither left nor right, the presidential campaign slogan in 2017 was thus somewhere aptonymic.Slogan that worked even if, six years later, no one is fooled, Macron leans on the same side as the serious accent of the word strike.

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