[1] Among student users of Bokmål in some areas, mockery of Nynorsk became widespread toward the end of the 20th century.
[2] For example they would use a pen to change the cover title of Nynorsk ordliste to "Spynorsk mordliste".
In the run-up to the 2005 parliamentary election, the Conservative politician Harald Victor Hove from Hordaland gained some attention for burning a copy of Nynorsk ordliste as a part of his campaign.
Progress Party politician Anette Elseth spoke to limit compulsory school writing to one of the written standards only, and added that she and others used to change the name of the dictionary to "Spynorsk mordliste".
[6] In another debate, Conservative politician Øystein Sundelin claimed—rhetorically—that "regrettably, more than half" of the school attenders in Oslo have written "Spynorsk mordliste" on their dictionaries.