On December 16, José Manuel Blecua was elected director of the SAR. Ph.D. in Romance Studies and Professor of English Language at the Autonomous University of Barcelona, \u200b\u200bBlecua will face the consolidation of English on the Internet and the United States.
Just one day after his appointment, presented the new spelling of the English language, agreed between the Academies of the English language worldwide, and, among other things, sets the name of some English lyrics for all removes the accents of monosyllabic words and reduces the number of letters of the alphabet to 27.
Among the most important changes are:
- It unifies the title of the lyrics: b will Be ; v will vee, double vee to w, and e to and . With the demise of the Y, the Latin i renamed i simply .
- Ch and ll be no letters of the alphabet, so the letters of the alphabet will become 27.
- disappears from the word tilde diacritical only (of only) and pronouns this, this, these, these .
- syllable words that include hiatuses and previously accentuated, are considered by the new spelling as "syllable spelling purposes" and therefore should be written without tilde script, buffoon, Hui, laugh, fie ... Moreover, the SAR "conviction" (No offers) to write these words with accents such as misspelling.
- 4 or 5 and not 4 or 5 : the use of the typewriter, was confusing the letter or the number 0, so it was the only word that could be accentuated when he was among numbers, but computer keyboards have eliminated the danger of confusing, and that 0 is larger.
- Qatar and Qatar not : the letter k and English fully, thus eliminating the letter q as alone representing the phoneme / k /. Hence we now proceed to write Iraq, Qatar or cuórum. If someone prefers the spelling above, will do it as if it were of foreign raw ( quorum, in italics and without tilde). Although this rule will not work for proper names, which are still written in bold.
- popes, kings and princes lose their capital, and piercing words or zoom fit into English, becoming pirsin or zum .
