"What kind of French shall we speak in 25 years?" asked Ottawa's Le Droit last week. "Will the laborer's jargon, which we know is composed of French and English badly pronounced, be purified . . ? Will the language of commerce, renouncing its innumerable borrowings from English, be a truly French language?"
Many French Canadians were asking that sort of question. In the cities, Quebeckers have always been proud of the purity of their tongue; they bristle when English-speaking visitors call it a patois. Once.it seemed that improved communications (newspapers, the radio and...
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