I am etymologizing the word punta riversa, and I would like to request a photocopy--or resource link--to the Oxford English Dictionary's entries for both punctum and reversus. Thank you.
In some discussions about the latest reform of the German orthography, it was claimed that a central language regulation body prevents people from writing as they like and thus prevents »natural« changes of orthography.
In contrast to this, I would hypothesise the following:
The establishment of...