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Originally Posted by artdutra04
l'Hospital is where you go if you get injured in France or Quebec.
l'Hôpital is everyone's favorite French mathmatician.
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They're actually equivalent.
Hôpital is the current French spelling of the word for hospital.
Hospital is an archaic spelling of the same thing. L'Hospital was probably how the mathematician spelled it, back in the day.... (In this case, the "s" is silent in French, so they sound the same.)