I therefore have a modest proposal aimed at rectifying this situation: let's declare war!

Hippolito, shattered by his realization that he had almost committed “the most execrable act of amicide,” blames himself for “his blindness in not knowing his dearest friend” (495).

Her suitors were all vying for her attention.

The Quebecian grammarian Jean-Marcel Léard has identified five morphological features which differentiate what he calls the Quebecian variety of French from the hexagonal variety (Léard 1995, based on the Estric corpus for Quebecian facts):[…]Most of these changes are not completely unknown in European French:[…]What then could be said to be Quebecian here?