Spelling peace
Spelling peace was a political buzzword in the field of language criticism and language politics in Germany at the turn of the 21st century .
The catchphrase denoted the absence of substantive disputes about German spelling and expressed the desire to end a long-standing dispute over the reform of German spelling in 1996 : The reform opponents saw the spelling peace broken by the reform and the reform proponents saw it with the adjustment the school orthography restored on August 1, 2006 . The word landed in 2006 in the Society for German Language in fourth place on their list of words of the year .
After the disputes about the spelling reform ended, the spread of the catchphrase decreased significantly. In 2011, five years after the last changes came into effect, the word had an index of 23 according to the vocabulary database of the University of Leipzig and was therefore no longer part of the active vocabulary of an average German-speaker; In 2018 the word was no longer listed in online editions of popular dictionaries.
Remarks
- ^ Society for German Language (GfdS): Press release: »Fanmeile« elected Word of the Year 2006 ; accessed December 26, 2018.
- ↑ University of Leipzig, Korporaportal vocabulary ; accessed December 26, 2018.
- ↑ Examples: Duden search , Pons search ; both accessed December 26, 2018.