translate English to French: The Vocabulary of a widely-diffused and highly-cultivated living language is not a fixed quantity circumscribed by definite limits.... there is absolutely no defining line in any direction: the circle of the English language has a well-defined centre but no discernible circumference.
All other accents are used only to distinguish similar words or for etymology, such as the adverbs l and o ("there", "where") from article and conjunction la and ou ("the fem. sing.