2023-08-26 16:30:00 In 1990, “the spelling corrections” were published in the Official Journal. Their goal: to bring spelling closer to pronunciation. By Louise Cuneo, Emmanuel Durget Published on 06/27/2019 at 12:06 p.m. – Modified on 08/26/2023 at 4:30 p.m. Subscriber-only audio playback Circumflex accents, hyphens, the plural of compound words… A game for those who like tricks, but a nightmare for others, since certain rules are sometimes only arbitrary.