spelling reform
Noun
Meaning
spelling reform (uncountable)
(grammar, linguistics) A deliberate, often authoritatively sanctioned or mandated change to spelling rules.
Examples
Current concern with reading and spelling reform steers away from visual to auditory stress.
Armenians and Azerbaijanis in Stepanakert, capital of the Nagorno-Karabakh autonomous region, rioted over much needed spelling reform in the Soviet Union.
Changes during this time included spelling reform (notably, í in place of the former j and j in place of g), the use of t (rather than ti) to end infinitive verbs and the non-capitalization of nouns (which had been a late borrowing from German).
Aufwand (effort) has the verb aufwenden (to spend, to dedicate) and the adjective aufwendig (requiring effort) though the 1996 spelling reform now permits the alternative spelling aufwändig (but not * aufwänden).
Greenland's Latin alphabet was originally much like the one used in Nunatsiavut, but underwent a spelling reform in 1973 to bring the orthography in line with changes in pronunciation and better reflect the phonemic inventory of the language.
During its work in 1927-1929, the Commission had actually prepared the project for spelling reform.