of a missing s, which is why a vacationing academic stays in an h?tel instead of a hostel (you lose the s but you get your own bathroom and towels).
One argument put forward for the retirement of the circumflex is that it will make printing easier. Well, maybe.
But the same could be said for the cedilla, the little wattle that depends from the French letter c to ensure that what looks like a consonant sounds as an s, as in
fran?ais,Lace Wigs.
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