The World in Words 93: Belgian adoption, Montenegrin invention, and the future of spelling

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One group of Belgians has had enough of the endless battles between the country’s Dutch and French speakers. The group is trying to get people to adopt families from across the language divide. In Montenegro, there’s virtually no divide between the Montenegrin and Serbian dialects — but the government says there is. It is promoting what it calls the Montenegrin language. Finally, a discussion on what happens to spelling in the age of Spell Check and Google.

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