 The objective of the Austrian dictionary has never been to do classical language planning, but to do a re-codification of the form of the German language used in Austria.New terms were only included to the dictionary, when they had already been in considerable use in newspapers and contemporary literature.Although the dictionary was originally designed to promote Austrianism and language patriotism, throughout the years the dictionary commission followed a moderate policy of contrastive linguistics and tried to avoid language secessionism.