Kajet ucznia Mickiewicza w świetle wileńskiej Grammatyki języka polskiego przez Maxymiliana Jakubowicza napisanej do użytku szkół przeznaczonej

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The article presents an analysis of spelling in a Kaunas notebook from the school year 1821/1822 which belonged to Mickiewicz’s student as well as in notes made by the student’s great teacher and in other manuscripts written by the poet. The study concentrated on punctuation, the usage of letters i, y, j and grapheme x, doubling of consonants, etymologized spelling of infinitives (for example bydź, kłaźdź), using a dot over z, the usage of capital letters as well as writing words together or separately. All of the above are the most important, controversial and not entirely regulated problems of the Polish orthography of the first quarter of the 19th century. These observations were compared with punctuation and spelling presented in a Vilnian textbook, issued in the same period as the above book, which was written by Maksymilian Jakubowicz, an author who also came from Northeastern Borderlands. The analysis showed that spelling used by the student who attended a Kaunas school was simi

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