The French Academy has a website which I always thought was far too adventurous ...

http://www.academie-francaise.fr/

A while back on my blog, there were a bunch of entries on Quebecois and European French approved blogging terms.

Reading the term fag reminds me of how my father, a Yank, always referred to cigarettes as fags. Must've been due to his time in London during the Blitz. I used to shudder to think one of my friends might hear him and misinterpret.