Edited sentence: " Outside observers are also struck by pretensions to linguistic purity in a province where most people do not speak French but rather a version of French approaching creole, as French author Alain Peyrfitte noted on a recent visit.In France a fax is "fax" while officially in Quebec it is "télécopie.In France parking is "parking" while in Quebec it is stationnement.In France, stop signs say stop.Jewish delicatessens must call themselves "charcuterie hébraique" (literally: hebraique butchery), hot dogs are officially designated at "chiens chaud" and bagels are "beignets juifs" (jewish donuts).Quebec is the only country with an Indo-European language to have changed the "STOP" in stop sings to "ARRET".What strikes outside observers as bizarre is that the French are much more ready to adopt English words than are Quebeckers