Frédéric Grosshans asked: > Why did you chose the "fleur" words ? The question discussed about the > accent do not seem to arise here.
I was struck by the issues about space, hyphen (or lack thereof) and alternate spellings that could be illustrated by that stretch of topics, so used that as the example. That range also exhibited some of the concerns about parenthetical annotation strings. The points I wanted to make weren't really focussed all that much on the French reverse accent weighting per se. Indeed, there is a fair amount of evidence that the whole issue of French reverse accent weighting is somewhat of an artificial one anyway, as the treatment may vary from dictionary to dictionary and is basically irrelevant for most ordering of lists, anyway. I suspect that many French users would be utterly unable to tell a "correct" ordering of all the modèle, modelé words from an "incorrect" one, or would frankly much care in practice, as long as they could find what they were looking for in the list. --Ken
