Zut alors!!

France are getting rid of the circumflex accent - or at least making its use optional. For those not sure, this is the ^ mark which - well, that's the point really - for the most part it does nothing.  There are occasions where the circumflex accent differentiates between words which are spelled the same (sur = on, sûr = sure; mur = wall, mûr = ripe) and in these cases it will continue to be used as necessary.  Not surprisingly, there are those who object to the language being messed about like this and #jesuiscirconflexe has started to appear as a hashtag.