How Germans and Russians Made Their Orthographies

How Germans and Russians Made Their Orthographies: Dealing With the “Spelling Distress” is the first social constructionist study of spelling norms and spelling mistakes. Starting from the question of why, in the modern world, misspelling is considered evidence of incompetence, laziness, stupidity, or carelessness, Kirill Levinson traces the origins of such attitudes in German and Russian societies of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Analyzing publications and archival sources, this