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As the only person in my university who seems not to have changed his German spelling, I am heartened by Frankfurter Allgemeine and Deutscher Hochschulverband support ("Germans say no to simplified spelling", THES, August 11). But an uneasy question remains: if so many are convinced the spelling reform is wrong, why on earth did they go along with it?

Peter Butler

Lecturer, Zurich and Solothurn universities of applied science