Re: French verb conjugation: "je harcèle"? or "je harcelle"?

On Mar 22, 8:15 am, na...@xxxxxxxxxxxx (Christian Weisgerber) wrote:

Let's see...
The latest edition of Grevisse says that
- appeler, rappeler, chanceler, renouveler, ruisseler, jeter and their
  family double the consonant;
- celer, geler, peler, acheter and their family use the grave accent;

How do you get into one family or the other?

And: "Pour les autres verbes, il y a beaucoup d'hésitations, dans
les dict. et/ou dans l'usage."  It then goes on and explains how
the Académie has been moving towards -èle and -ète since the 1970s.

Ah. It's purely arbitrary.
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