German is the standard language that is used above all in Germany, Austria and parts of Switzerland. But how did German come to be the standard language? And how has the perception of standard German ...

The move is seen by grammar purists as a further encroachment of English into German. Traditionally, apostrophes have not been used to indicate possession in German-speaking countries. The Council for ...

The wrangling about the German spelling reform in the 1990s could hardly have been more acrimonious. What caused this heated row in the German press and public administration, in schools and even in ...

Language is constantly changing and adapting. For the German language, one of the most significant moments of change came 25 years ago with the introduction of the German spelling reform. The ...

Apostrophes aren’t used to show possession in German in most cases, but the highest authority on the language is changing that. Here’s the scoop on the English ‘idiot’s apostrophe’ - and why critics ...

17:12, Tue, Oct 8, 2024 Updated: 17:13, Tue, Oct 8, 2024 A decision to sanction the use of the "idiot's apostrophe" in the German language has provoked a furious backlash, with some media commentators ...

Medium Ævum, which first appeared in 1932, is one of the leading international academic periodicals in medieval studies. It is published twice yearly and its present editors are Professors Nigel F.

BERLIN -- Some German words, as Mark Twain observed in despair, seem not to be words at all but “alphabetical processions.” He would have been delighted to hear ...

GERMAN is more gendered than many other languages. In English, for example, “professor” can describe an academic of either sex, whereas in German “Professor” is strictly male and “Professorin” is ...

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