Nœud papillon - hyphen not needed

Maarten K.C1 Kwiziq Q&A super contributor

Nœud papillon - hyphen not needed

Nœud papillon is hyphenated in the exercise word list, and indicated during the exercise as having a hyphen. In the final transcript, the hyphen is not used - none of the main dictionaries seem to use a hyphen (Academie entry below)

Nœud papillon (on dit aussi Cravate papillon)
Asked 3 years ago
CécileNative French expert teacher in KwiziqCorrect answer

Thank you Maarten, I have taken the offensive hyphen off. 

Interestingly,  in menswear nowadays name of ties include  -

a tie = une cravate

a bow tie un nœud papillon 

a cravat/ an ascot tie  = une lavallière

 Bonne Continuation!

Maarten K.C1 Kwiziq Q&A super contributor

Cécile, it would be good if these relatively minor typos, etc could be reported directly, akin to the report issue button on quizzes. 

I know sometimes it is unclear if there is significant language discussion to be had or not, but the use of accents, minor spelling differences etc would not really be missed in the main forum by most, I suspect.

CécileNative French expert teacher in Kwiziq

Maarten, at the moment this is the fastest way to get these minor errors corrected. When I am not able to correct them I send them on to a person that can.

We want the users to carry on sending these as you will appreciate that little errors can occur when you have several languages competing in your head, and words can be similar and slightly different in the two languages, or you forget to make an agreement and the like.

In my particular case, it is double letters and differences in punctuation but I am not alone in this.

So please carry on reporting them via this medium as they would only be triaged to one of us anyway, making the process even slower. They will be deleted in time.

Maarten K.C1 Kwiziq Q&A super contributor

Will do - glad it is understood that they are only minor things picked up along the way. 

Nœud papillon - hyphen not needed

Nœud papillon is hyphenated in the exercise word list, and indicated during the exercise as having a hyphen. In the final transcript, the hyphen is not used - none of the main dictionaries seem to use a hyphen (Academie entry below)

Nœud papillon (on dit aussi Cravate papillon)

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