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The name of letters, derived from Latin, are not exactly the same in the various Romance languages. The study of references to the name of letters made by grammarians and lexicographers reveals the continuity of forms going back to the origins of language and still remembered, although occasionally, at the beginning of the 20th century: a, be, ce, de, e, ef; ge, hac, i, jota, ka, el, em, en, o, pe, qu, er, es, te, u, ve, xeix, y grega, i tzeta. However, in the 19th century, Castilians gradually substituted these names, and consequently, the codification of Catalan by Pompeu Fabra and the Institut d'Estudis Catalans was carried out with disregard to its own grammatical tradition.

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This article describes the process by which the Nou Diccionari Normatiu de la Llengua Catalana (NDNLC) has been made; this dictionary brings up to date and regularizes Pompeu Fabra’s Diccionari General de la Llengua Catalana (DGLC), which implies, on the one hand, adding to the dictionary new words brought about by different social habits and by the progress of Science and technology, and, on the other hand, bringing the contents of the dictionary up to date. This project has been carried out in three different phases. The first consisted in creating a general Computer data base (BDOL) which contains, besides the DGLC, words belonging both to the common language and to specific fields; in this first phase a study of the DGLC was also carried out, with two aims: a) to analyse the text itself and in doing so select whatever Information might be considered obsolete today, and b) to find out the criteria which Fabra used to make the dictionary, which are implicit in the text. In the second phase the lexicographic criteria by which the dictionary was to be made were established, its entries (both words and phrases) were selected, the old articles were revised and new ones were created. Finally, in the third phase the data base specifically for the NDNLC was created; this contains all the Information of the Nou Diccionari Normatiu de la Llengua Catalana, organised into articles.

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This work presents the various aspects of the characterization of the Corpus Textual Informatitzat de la Llengua Catalana (Computerized Textual Corpus of the Catalan Language), and analyzes the present State of this project, linked to the preparation of the so-called Diccionari del Català contemporani (Dictionary of Contemporary Catalan) undertaken by the Institut d’Estudis Catalans (Institute of Catalan Studies).

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The publication of the Normes ortográfiques de l'IEC (1913) and its adoption in the entire linguistic region in 1932 in the Valencian Country with the so-called Normes de Castelló was the result of a process in which differing spelling norms had to be standardized. The author examines in detail the norms used in several popular and dialectic magazines published in Barcelona (La Esquella de la Torratxa), Valencia (El Micalet de Valensia) and Palma de Majorca (En Figuera).