If the English-speaking term 'musher' from Canada is generally used to designate dog sled drivers, in France the terms ‘meneur et meneuse de chiens' have been officially recommended by the Commission for the enrichment of the French language since 2010. Its French variants 'musheur' and 'musheuse', on the other hand, are discouraged because they are considered poorly suited to the French linguistic system, both morphosemantically and phonologically.