Language is a self-regulating system that is quite difficult to influence from the outside.
Institutions can only record changes in language post factum, reflecting the modern norm in dictionaries and grammars.
However, sometimes the state can still influence the language by declaring one or another linguistic innovation the norm, writes the Zen channel “Lingvoed”.
What word were people afraid to spell correctly in the USSR until Joseph Stalin's death
In 1956, three years after Stalin's death, a reform of the Russian alphabet was carried out.
It was prescribed, in particular, that at the end of nouns after hissing sounds under stress, the letter “o” must be written (myachom, vrachem, borschom).
However, in the word “Ilyich” it was allowed to write “ёm”.
This spelling developed historically, which was facilitated by the fact that Nadezhda Krupskaya called her husband Vladimir Ilyich in her letters.
Under Stalin, no linguist would have dared to correct this mistake in the patronymic of the leader of the revolution. And even after Stalin's death, it was decided that the letter "o" should be written in the patronymics of all Ilyichs except one.
Thus Tchaikovsky became Pyotr Ilyich, and Lenin remained Vladimir Ilyich for a long time.
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