Andre Yoskowitz
27 Jan 2013 9:55
France's Commission Générale de Terminologie et de Néologie has announced that they do not appreciate the term "hashtag" on Twitter and will instead use a local term, "mot-dièse."
The term hashtag relates to words and phrases that follow the # symbol and can help others find causes or more easily find posts.
Mot-diese means "sharp word" and the group has coined the term to mean "a series of characters preceded by the # symbol."
The move is not the first time French officials have move to remove English terms from the French language and daily dialect.