thumb|"Speak French, Be Clean" written on the wall of the Ayguatébia-Talau school
thumb|"Speak French, Be Clean" written on the wall of the Ayguatébia-Talau school
The symbole, also called '''''ar vuoc'h''' ("the cow"), was an object used by Francophone headmasters in public and private schools in Brittany, French Flanders, Occitania, Basque Country and North Catalonia as a means of punishment for students caught speaking Breton, Flemish, Occitan, Basque, or Catalan during the 19th and 20th centuries.
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).