The British government insisted on Friday it would not accept negotiations in French. Le Brexit: a linguistic guide for Theresa May Read moreThe prime minister said her time sitting around the table over the past two days had shown her the need to continue to cooperate fully while the UK remained a member. A commission spokesperson repeated his comments but appeared to leave the door open to negotiations in French. Most EU officials think that any attempt to abandon English is doomed, as many European officials use it as their second language of choice. Anglicisms have also sprouted in French bureaucratic texts, including le briefing, le benchmarking, le sixpack [rules on financial stability] and most obviously le Brexit, recently confirmed as a masculine word in French and German.

Source: The Guardian October 21, 2016 14:08 UTC