Adgar Williams said: 

>Note that this [different gender forms of "born" and "died"] is not
>peculiar to French.  (Spanish, German, Russian, >Italian,... all
>share this feature)

In bilingual Canada, French is of course of most concern to us.

Let's hope LAC and EURIG has the good sense to reject this practice, and
adopt hyphens before and after single dates or death and birth.


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