Word: crouton
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Suprisingly enough, Harvard students, however, can't afford to consider croutons standard issue. Cabot, Currier Dunster, Mather and North salads all lack the crouton crackle...
...words in use, but such minor "rectifications" cut no ice with editors and academics who have launched a vigorous contre-attaque (new spelling: contrattaque). At the center of their protest is the circumflex accent, a little hat the French occasionally put over vowels (as in chateau and hotel, crouton and maitre). To simplify matters, the new rules would remove it from...