The article discusses the use of Serbo-Croatisms in the newspaper Delo alter Slovene independence. In the early years their number grew, due to the relaxation of purist control after the ending of the influence of Serbo-Croat speakers, but then, under the influence of the Slovene Orthography of 2001, there remained very few Serbo-Croatisms, other than those that have taken on a different shade of meaning or are perceived as old-fashioned and are used as stylemes.
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