In languages that today maintain the T-V distinction, usage varies. Following the British usage, early francophone Quakers preferred the use of the more informal "tu" to address even those who would by convention be addressed with the more formal "vous". In more contemporary times, however, usage has swung the other way, and French-speaking Quakers today are "more" likely than others to use the formal "vous". In part, this is a recognition of the complexity of the notion of simplicity in speech, whose intent might be understood to be not a requirement of informality, but a desire to address everyone "simply", "i.e.", uniformly. The rejection of the past use of "tu" by white French missionaries to address Africans may be a factor in the contemporary francophone usage.