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Title | Article: Brazil Embraces Portuguese Spelling Reforms |
Body | Brazil embraces spelling reforms: Brazilians start 2009 facing the task of learning new spelling rules that have just come into effect January 1, 2009 The spelling reforms have been agreed by Portuguese-speaking nations, but the language seems set to have different written forms for some time to come. In Portugal, there has been fierce resistance in some quarters to the changes because many of the changes are to spell words the Brazilian way. Portuguese is the official language of more than 230m people worldwide. Read the entire article at http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7807116.stm . |
Source | BBC |
Inputdate | 2009-01-11 10:35:14 |
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Publishdate | 2009-01-12 00:00:00 |
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