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[sly lotus]

Please be patient

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[orchid mural]

Écosse with the accent is the French word for Scotland.

'Ecosse' might be used if special characters aren't as available, such as in the title of the Wikipedia article.

[brisk pine]

Oh, that makes a lot of sense. Thanks

I also have another question, I've seen the sentence "Je suis allé(e) en France", what is the use of the e? I'm aware it is a gendered thing but how does gender apply to this sentence?

[orchid mural]

Je suis allé ...
I (male) went ...

Je suis allée ...
I (female) went ...

So it applies to the person who went.

[brisk pine]

thanks

[plush yoke]

Wikipedia article has the accent

cause it's the only correct way to write it

however capital accented letters are very boring to do on keyboards (alt codes)

that's why

[orchid mural]

It showed it without the accent when I used English search settings. Now that I'm searching in French it does indeed show up.

[orchid mural]

They're not easy with standard AZERTY, right?

[plush yoke]

oh weird

yep

for É you have to press alt+0201

and it's so boring cause every capital accented letter has a different code

[orchid mural]

That does sound annoying.

[plush yoke]

so in casual conversations you may often not see them

[orchid mural]

Just a heads up: while French only has 'ennuyeux' for both, English distinguishes between 'boring' (pas intéressant) et 'annoying' (légèrement irritant).

[plush yoke]

oh okay thanks!

well in this case it's both lol

[orchid mural]

True.