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French authorities have war on the English word “hashtag” in its drive to its language as free as possible from English loan words. France’s government a special department that the purity of its language and recommendations regarding outside influences. The General Commission for Terminology and Neologisms has that “hashtag” will no longer be in government documents and public statements. Instead, it will the new, French term “mot-dièse,” which is as “sharp word”. The Commission also users of social media, especially people on Twitter, to use the new word.

“Hashtag” is the latest English word to foul of the French authorities. Officials recently a list of words and terms they want . These include “e-mail”, “blog”, “supermodel”, “take-away”, “chewing gum”, “parking”, “weekend” and “low-cost airline”. Schoolteachers in France have been to discourage students from using them. Many Twitter users out that “mot-dièse” to the wrong symbol as the word “dièse” the sharp symbol from music, which similar to the hashtag symbol. One comment on the Huffington Post website France needed to accept new words. It said: “Many languages use loan words and society hasn't apart because of it.”