impose orthographic standards against Basque in Hego Euskal Herria. It was sent by the civil governor of Gipuzkoa and Bizkaia in a note published in El Diario Vasco. Proclaiming the new edition of the telephone directory, it largely prohibited the names to appear in it. Consequently, he ordered the disappearance of words such as Etxe or Txoko in the new guide, and demanded from the houses that had in their names these words to label them in an “acceptable spelling”, replacing them with chs of the names that had “separatist flavor”.