Ortografia w Dziennikach Marii Dąbrowskiej
Orthography in Dzienniki ( Diaries) by Maria Dąbrowska

Summary/Abstract: This paper analyses the orthography of Maria Dąbrowska’s Diaries. This extensive document, which was written in different “orthographic ages”, demonstrates an interesting attitude of the writer to spelling rules. Conclusions are based on an analysis of spellings of words and phraseologisms with respect to using j or i letter after consonants, one-word and separate spelling of prepositional phrases, the use of capital and small letters, and using digit and letter hybrids. The analysis proves that Dąbrowska applied a specific orthography in these areas: in general, she relied on the spelling applicable in 1918 but she did it inconsistently at the same time using rules of both an older and newer orthography. Forms such as kwestja and kwestia (an issue), materjał and materiał (material), popołudniu and po południu (in the afternoon), przedemną and przede mną (before me) are present in her texts interchangeably and without a clear “ascription to a time”. Spellings such as 6-tej (6th), 2-go (2nd), 1921-ym (1921st) are very frequent. It can be concluded that the writer did not attach much attention to orthography both the in the typed and handwritten part of Dzienniki (Diaries) although obviously no fundamental deviations from the spelling standard can be noticed there.

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