O Institutovu Pravopisnom rječniku sa slabije strane

The paper describes the Orthographic Dictionary in the Orthographic Manual of the Institute of Croatian Language and Linguistics from its weaker side. The analysis includes particular doubts and ambiguities in a certain set of entries that have or have not been included in the dictionary. The paper also illustrates the disorder in the elaboration of the normative hierarchy of recommendable and permitted orthographic variants. The conclusion of the paper suggests the need for the elaboration of a conception and of criteria for the composition of a school normative orthographic dictionary based on the lexicon of the school subjects and on the problems that the students of primary and secondary schools encounter in the course of their schooling.