The nation that invented the DIN, the Deutsche Industrienorm, has always been intoxicated by standards. So it proved irresistible when someone had the idea of attaching a "hip" English word to something so utterly German as standards. But by what evil twist did Standard then develop a non-standard spelling? Cantor offers a hilarious survey in his blog of the rapidly spread of the variant Standart in the German language.
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