The Dr. Ivan Šreter Award ( hr, Nagrada Dr. Ivan Šreter) is an annual Croatian linguistics award for the best Croatian language word coined. The award is named after Dr. Ivan Šreter (1951–1991), a Croatian physician who was sentenced to jail time in

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in 1987 for choosing to use the distinct Croatian ''umirovljeni časnik'' to refer to his patient as a retired officer, rather than using ''penzionisani oficir''. During the

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he was taken captive by

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troops and presumably killed, although his remains have not been found . The contest and the award was initially designed by Stjepan Babić, and it has been organized by the literary magazine ''

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'' since 1993.

Winners

* 1993 - László Bulcsú for ''suosnik'', as a replacement for the term ''koaksijalni kabel'' ( Eng:

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) * 1998 - ''straničnik'' as a replacement for ''

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'' * 2006 - Nada Arar-Premužić for ''uspornik'', as a replacement for the term ''ležeći policajac'' (Eng:

speed bump Speed bumps (also called traffic thresholds, speed breakers or sleeping policemen) are the common name for a class of traffic calming devices that use vertical deflection to slow motor-vehicle traffic in order to improve safety conditions. Varia ...

) * 2007 - Vilim Pantlik for ''naplatnica'' as a replacement for ''naplatna kućica'' (Eng:

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) * 2009 - Drago Štambuk for ''proširnica'', as a replacement for ''žilni potporanj'' (Eng:

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) * 2010 - Vinko Vukadin for ''ispraznica'' as a replacement for ''floskula'' (Eng:

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) * 2011 - Šandor Dembitz for ''zatipak'' as a replacement for ''tipfeler'' (Eng:

typo A typographical error (often shortened to typo), also called a misprint, is a mistake (such as a spelling mistake) made in the typing of printed (or electronic) material. Historically, this referred to mistakes in manual type-setting (typography). ...

) * 2018 - Lidija Stević Brtan for ''zapozorje'' as a replacement for ''

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'' * 2020 - Drago Štambuk and Karlo Kulaš for ''dišnik''Najbolje nove hrvatske riječi: Znate li što su dišnik, kihobran i rukozborac?
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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Dr. Ivan Sreter Award Croatian language Croatian awards 1993 establishments in Croatia