Editing Quebec French (section)

=== Spelling and grammar ===
==== Formal language ====
A notable difference in grammar which received considerable attention in France during the 1990s is the feminine form of many professions that traditionally did not have a feminine form.{{refn|The {{langr|fr|Académie française}} has taken strong positions opposing the officialization of feminine forms in these cases.{{sfn|Martel|Cajolet-Laganière|1996|page=109}} [[Lionel Jospin]]'s female cabinet ministers were the first to be referred to as {{lang|fr|Madame {{strong|la}} ministre}} instead of {{lang|fr|Madame {{strong|le}} ministre}}, whereas this had been common practice in Canada for decades.{{citation needed|date=January 2025}}|group=note}} In Quebec, one writes nearly universally {{lang|fr|une chercheuse}} or {{lang|fr|une chercheure}}<ref>Grand dictionnaire terminologique, "chercheuse", {{cite web|url=http://www.granddictionnaire.com/btml/fra/r_motclef/index800_1.asp |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120604201446/http://www.granddictionnaire.com/btml/fra/r_motclef/index800_1.asp |url-status=dead |archive-date=June 4, 2012 |title=Grand dictionnaire terminologique |access-date=September 3, 2010 }}</ref> "a researcher", whereas in France, {{lang|fr|un chercheur}} and, more recently, {{lang|fr|un chercheur}} and {{lang|fr|une chercheuse}} are used. Feminine forms in {{lang|fr|-eur{{strong|e}}}} as in {{lang|fr|ingénieu{{strong|re}}}} are still strongly criticized in France by institutions like the {{langr|fr|[[Académie française]]}}, but are commonly used in Canada and Switzerland.

There are other, sporadic spelling differences. For example, the {{Lang|fr|[[Office québécois de la langue française]]|italic=no}} formerly recommended the spelling {{lang|fr|tofou}} for what is in France {{lang|fr|tofu}} "tofu". This recommendation was repealed in 2013.<ref>{{Cite web |title=tofu |url=https://vitrinelinguistique.oqlf.gouv.qc.ca/fiche-gdt/fiche/26526882/tofu |access-date=2023-11-12 |website=vitrinelinguistique.oqlf.gouv.qc.ca |language=fr}}</ref> In grammar, the adjective {{lang|fr|inuit}} "Inuit" is invariable in France but, according to official recommendations in Quebec, has regular feminine and plural forms.{{sfn|Martel|Cajolet-Laganière|1996|pages=97,99}}

==== Informal language ====
Grammatical differences between informal spoken Quebec French and the formal language abound. Some of these, such as omission of the negative particle {{lang|fr|ne}}, are also present in the informal language of speakers of standard European French, while other features, such as use of the interrogative particle {{lang|fr|-tu}}, are either peculiar to Quebec or Canadian French or restricted to nonstandard varieties of European French.