How très français. Monkey is a little slow on the compréhension here (hat tip: New Statesman) – last week the French government's General Commission for Terminology and Neology issued a proclamation to users of Twitter and other social media urging them to stop using the term "hashtag", in favour of "mot-dièse". The GCTN was set up to halt the creep of Anglo-American words into the French language – understandable, particularly given that the ever growing digital and technology sectors tend to be dominated by Americanisms. But this development begs the question – what are the French going to do about the character "#"? Add an accent?