Abstract
In 1981, four Czech bohemists published a significant paper entitled The current state and future prospects of Standard Czech codification (the article appeared in the respected Slovo a slovesnost journal). The paper contained, among others, a list of non-standard morphological variants that - according to the authors - could or should be included in the Standard Czech codification.
Later, some of these proposals have really come true. However, according to the authors' statement, the non-standard -ma variant in the plural instrumental case had still remained a certain degree of stylistic markedness, even though it had no longer been distinctively non-standard.
Today, forty years later, we aim to answer the question to what extent we can still agree with this statement, particularly in the fields of spoken journalism.