Pathetic

Académie Solemnly Mans the Barricades Against Impure French By CRAIG S. SMITH.

The Académie Française

...has been toiling for 70 years on [their] dictionary's ninth edition and has reached only the letter P.... The pace is so slow that by the time the edition is done, the early letters of the lexicon will be largely out of date.

"P", eh? Do they put their own picture under "pathétique"? Well, probably not. Under "pitoyable", maybe.