In this paper, I will examine the existence of archival evidence of the feminization of a public discourse on language in the Moncton area in the period preceding the adoption of official bilingualism by the province of New Brunswick. By mobilizing a small corpus of press archives dating from 1947 to 1965, I propose a reflection on women’s discourse on language shame. Indeed, Annette Boudreau (2021) develops the notion of “social shame” at length in her most recent book entitled Dire le silence : insécurité linguistique en Acadie 1867-1970. She conceives shame as integral to linguistic and identity insecurity, as well as a source of collective silence (learning to keep silent). For my part, I will draw on Boudreau’s work to examine how women process linguistic shame. The goal will be to reflect on how women’s archives allow us to think about linguistic shame not through the prism of silence, but through the act of speaking out as a form of language emancipation.