Some Evidence of bezgrjesno zacece in Church Publications

This contribution to the debate on the spelling je vs e after covered r in Croatian linguistics provides supplemental evidence for Stjepan Babic's "Hrvatski su pisci uvijek pisali likove tipa grjesnik, pogrjeska, strjelica" ([Croatian Writers Always Wrote Forms of the Type grjesnik, pogrjeska, or strjelica] 2001). Literature produced by the Croatian Catholic Church (catechisms, prayerbooks, encyclopedias, & directories) after 1945, ie, after the normative prescriptions of Boranic's Pravopis hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika ([The Orthography of Croatian or Serbian Language] 1921) & the Novi Sad agreement were imposed, evinces the preponderance of forms like bezgrjesno zacece 'immaculate conception', bezgrjesan 'sinless, innocent', or grjesnik, 'sinner'. Z. Dubiel