Home orthography

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A house orthography (also house orthography , house spelling ) is a spelling that is used in exactly this form only within a certain institution ("house") and systematically deviates from the official or commonly used (if any), whereby the deviation refers to the Restriction of permitted variants can restrict.

An institution can be a publishing house or a news agency , for example . If there is no uniform spelling in a language area, these institutions have an interest in using a uniform spelling, at least in their own publications. While in the 19th century, especially before the appearance of the first Duden in 1880, house orthographies were common due to the lack of a uniform standard, they became less common afterwards and especially after the standardization of spelling in the German-speaking countries at the Second Orthographic Conference of 1901 or, where still available, less extensive, as the spelling described by the Duden was generally accepted and used and offered relatively few variants.

Situation after 1996

With the reform of German spelling in 1996 , the situation had changed. The set of rules did not provide a clear spelling for thousands of words. Improvements to the set of rules have resulted in different spellings next to one another.

Under these conditions, a considerable number of publishers have expanded their home orthographies to include questions of general spelling. In December 2006 , for example, the Bertelsmann Lexikon Institute published an “orthographic guide for uniform and stringent spelling” under the title One word - one spelling (subtitle: Die Wahrig-Hausorthografie from A to Z ). At that time, Die Zeit gave particularly detailed reasons for its deviating acceptance of the reform. Some large newspapers and magazines such as the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , Bild and Der Spiegel also retained the old spelling as their house orthography for some time.

Situation after 2006

With the reform of the reform in mid-2006, the front of the opponents of the new rules gradually collapsed. News agencies and the major magazines agreed to the reform rules and created house orthographies on the basis of them.

The occasions for house orthographies are again the situations in which no regulations have been made (for example in foreign locations: "Lüttich" or "Liège"? Or proper names: "HafenCity" or "Hafencity"? And the like) as well as the around 2400 words ( after all, almost 2% of the vocabulary) in which the spelling regulation has allowed alternative spellings (for example: until further notice / further notice?). At this point, the two major dictionaries have gone different ways. While the Duden usually recommends the newer spelling in these cases, the truth is the other way around. Depending on your basic attitude, you can choose one or the other work as a reference - or you can set your own rules in a house orthography.

In Switzerland, this situation has led to a guideline on German spelling that is binding on the federal administration, as well as to recommendations from the Swiss Orthographic Conference for Press and Literature in Switzerland , which were adopted by the Swiss news agency SDA and by the Swiss Conference of Editors in Chief and the Association Swiss media are supported.

Not all newspapers use the news agencies' in-house orthography. The Neue Zürcher Zeitung, for example, published its house orthography for imitation in a vademecum , which also includes spellings such as “placieren”, “plastic” and “caritativ”. Plastic, for example, analogous to the recommendations of the Swiss Orthographic Conference that the spelling should be differentiated according to its meaning. This is how plastic describes plastic, plastic a work of sculpture.

See also

Footnotes

  1. ^ Hans-Jürgen Martin: Spelling reform: comparison Duden - Bertelsmann. In: www.schriftdeutsch.de. Retrieved December 17, 2016 .
  2. ↑ Dieter E. Zimmer : How do I write that? In: The time . No.  June 24 , 1999.
  3. ↑ Dieter E. Zimmer: ZEITSchreibung: New spelling in the ZEIT ( Memento from January 19, 2008 in the Internet Archive ). In: The time . No. 24, June 10, 1999.
  4. ↑ Home page of the German-language news agencies | Spelling from August 1, 2007. Retrieved January 15, 2012 .
  5. ↑ On my own behalf: FAZ adjusts spelling. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . December 2, 2006, accessed July 4, 2012 .
  6. ↑ One word - one spelling. The WAHRIG- [Bertelsmann] Hausorthografie from A to Z . Gütersloh / Munich 2006 ( duden.de - only the in-house "Duden recommendations" are left of K. Duden's standard spelling: http://www.duden.de/ueber_duden/ueber-den-rechtschreibduden .). One word - one spelling. The WAHRIG [Bertelsmann] house orthography from A to Z ( memento of the original from November 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.duden.de
  7. ↑ Reclam now writes like NZZ and FAZ. In: scholaria2.webnode.fr. Retrieved August 18, 2016 .
  8. ↑ Guide to German spelling from the Swiss Federal Chancellery. Page content no longer found. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on October 30, 2013 ; Retrieved January 15, 2012 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bk.admin.ch
  9. ^ Recommendations of the Swiss Orthographic Conference for Press and Literature in Switzerland. Page content no longer found. Retrieved January 15, 2012 .
  10. ^ German spelling at the SDA (1.8.2007). (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on February 4, 2017 ; accessed on February 4, 2017 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.sda.ch
  11. ^ The spelling reform in the NZZ. (No longer available online.) In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . December 6, 2006, archived from the original on May 13, 2007 ; Retrieved July 4, 2012 .
  12. ^ Walter Hagenbüchle: Only language purists still offer resistance. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . July 21, 2009. Retrieved July 4, 2012 .
  13. ↑ 3.1. Foreign words (without ph / f). In: Recommendations of the SOK on German spelling. Swiss Orthographic Conference, July 3, 2011, accessed on November 21, 2019 (German).