ABSTRACT
Orthography (Orthographie, Rechtschreibung) is the officially correct representation of sounds by symbols (pp. 2, 3ff.); that is, correct (but not necessarily phonetic) spelling. German orthography was revised and fixed in its present form in 1934 and was set down in the official manuals of spelling (Regelbücher) of the separate States, the most important of these being Das Preussische Regelbuch. A compendium of German, Austrian and Swiss official orthography is Der grosse Duden (last edition 1948); this is the accepted book of reference.
