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The article concerns the history of the Silesian Polish in the first half of 1920s, which is exemplified by advertisements from two Polish papers published in Upper Silesia: “Katolik” and “Polonia”. The article contains an analysis of phonetic and orthographic phenomena related to the local dialect, regional vocabulary, lexical archaisms, lexical and syntactic Ger- manisms, spelling and inflection of the Polish and German proper nouns.