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The new edition of the spelling of the Royal Spanish Academy, to be published before Christmas, presents updates and innovations from the previous edition, 1999. Javier Rodriguez Marcos wrote on Friday in El Pais that the coordinator of the new proposal, Salvador Gutiérrez Ordóñez1, insists that the changes are not “at all” revolutionary and refuses even to use the word “reform.”

The new spelling of the Spanish Royal Academy sets the name of some letters, change “quorum” for and removes the accents of “only”, “script” and “or” between numbers.

The Y is e, b will be (high or Be not Be Long), the ch and ll are no longer letters of the alphabet is removed tick in one and demonstratives (this, this …) and in or between numbers (5 or 6) and quorum shall cuórum, while Qatar is Qatar.

The new edition of the spelling of the Royal Spanish Academy, to be published before Christmas, try to be, as its coordinator, Salvador Gutiérrez Ordóñez, “reasoned and thorough but simple and readable.” And above all “consistent” with the use of speakers and grammatical rules. Therefore the stresses academic updates and innovations arising from the previous edition, 1999, but is not “at all” revolutionary. Gutiérrez Ordóñez is reluctant even to use the word “reform.”

However, the director of the Department of Spanish Day of the HKSAR is aware that the spelling changes always provoke resistance among some speakers. Hence the relevance, says panhispánico consensus that the Commission has sought IAP association that brings together the Spanish Language Academies worldwide. On Wednesday, the commission, meeting in San Millan de la Cogolla (La Rioja) has approved the basic text of the new spelling of the Spanish language. In the absence of final ratification on 28 this month at the Guadalajara International Book Fair (Mexico) during the height of the 22 schools, these are some of the “innovations point” approved this week and highlighted by the very Gutiérrez Ordóñez.

The Y will ye.
Some letters of our alphabet received several names: be, be high or benefits for long b; vee, be low or benefits cuts for v, double vee, go double or go to w, i Greek or karma for the letter and , gallo pinto, yield, zeta or Zeda to z. The new Spelling proposes a single name for each letter: be to b, for v vee, double vee for w and e for y (i rather than Greek). According to the coordinator of the new text, the most widely used in Spanish of the Y is consonant (lightning, horse), hence its new name, the majority also in many countries in Latin America. Of course, the disappearance of the Y also affects America, now called simply i.

Ch and ll are not letters of the alphabet.
Since the nineteenth century, the letter combinations ch and ll were considered letters of the alphabet, but in 1999 became Spelling digraphs considered, namely “signs two-letter spelling.” However, both ch and ll remained in the alphabet chart. The new edition of the deleted “formally.” Thus, the letters of the alphabet become 27.

Only black coffee without tilde.
There are two written accent uses traditionally associated with the tilde diacritic (amending the letter as well as the modified, for example, the umlaut: arrive, old). These two uses are: 1) the determinants demonstration opposing this, this, these, these (That book I like) versus pronominal uses the same ways (That I do not like). 2) The voice that made the adverbial use only (just arrived here) its value adjective (lives alone).

“How are you distinctions are not strictly conform to the rules of diacritical tilde (as in no way precludes a tonic to an unstressed word), since 1959 spelling rules restricting accent mandatory only for situations of ambiguity (Said tomorrow it will / said this morning there, I’ll just this summer / I’ll just this summer). Because such cases are rare and are easily resolved by the context, remember that you can not tick the adverb alone and demonstrative pronouns even in cases of ambiguity “, it says the commission of the new spelling, which, yes, it does not condemn their use if someone wants to use the tilde. Coffee for everyone. However, the SAR has spent decades leading by example and since 1960 in its publications does not tick either alone or in the demonstration.

Guion, also without a tilde.
So far, the HKSAR considered “within the meaning spelling monosyllabic words that included a series of vowels pronounced as hiatuses in some areas as Hispanic and diphthongs in others.” However, allowing “writing accents to those who clearly perceive the existence of hiatus.” You could therefore write script-script, hui-hui, laugh, laugh, Sion-Sion, buffoon, rascal, fie, fie … The new Spelling believes that these words are “monosyllabic spelling purposes” and that whatever form of delivery, is always written without accent: script, Hui, laugh, Sion, buffoon and fie. In this case also, the HKSAR is not limited to proposing and “condemns” any other use. As Salvador Gutiérrez Ordóñez said, “write script will be a spelling mistake.”

4 or 5 and not 4 or 5.
The old spellings were prepared thinking that everybody used to write by hand. The new has not lost sight of the modern mechanical writing: the already decrepit typewriter to computer. So far, the conjunction or write with accents when he appeared between numbers (4 or 5 million). Was an exception to the rules of Spanish accent, “was the only word that could lead tilde unstressed.” However, computer keyboards have eliminated “the danger of confusing the letter or the number zero, larger.”

Qatar and Qatar do not.
Although there always was, reminiscent of the coordinator of the new spelling, the letter k and Spanish fully, thus deleting the letter q as alone represents the phoneme / k /. “In our system of writing the letter q represents only the phoneme / k / in the combination qu before eoi (cheese, wanted). Therefore, writing a few words with q (Iraq, Qatar, quorum) represents an inconsistency with rules. ” Hence happens to be written now: Iraq, Qatar and cuórum. What if someone prefers the previous script: “You must do it as if it were of foreign raw (Qatar and quorum, in italics and without tilde).”

Of course, the disappearance of the Y also affects America, now called simply i.

The Y is e, b will be (high or Be not Be Long), the ch and ll are no longer letters of the alphabet is removed tick in one and demonstratives (this, this …) and in or between numbers (5 or 6) and quorum shall cuórum, while Qatar is Qatar.

La i griega será ye, la b será be (y no be alta o be larga); la ch y la ll dejan de ser letras del alfabeto; se elimina la tilde en solo y los demostrativos (este, esta…) y en la o entre números (5 o 6) y quorum será cuórum, mientras que Qatar será Catar.