The abbreviated forms of the months in French The proposed change was upgraded from optional to standard and for use in school books by the Académie française in 2016. aout = orthographe rectifiée de 1990 – rectified spelling as of 1990.août = orthographe traditionnelle – traditional spelling.The circumflex accent ( ˆ) disappears on the i or u unless the accent allows to distinguish between words. L’accent circonflexe disparaît sur le i ou sur le u à moins que cet accent ne permette de distinguer des mots entre eux. In 1990 a new spelling rule came into place which says the following: You may see two different spellings of the word for August in French… août and aout. aout – August (* See more about the spelling of this month below).The French months of the year do NOT start with a capital letter as in English (unless they are at the beginning of a sentence). * When a French noun begins with a vowel (a, e, i, o, u) or a silent h, instead of using le or la (= the) before the noun, the contraction l’ is added to the beginning of that noun. There are douze mois (12 months) in une année (a year).
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