Lady Bitch Ray is a stickler for grammar. Photo: DPA On the 20th anniversary of the Rechtschreibreform, controversial German rapper and philologist Lady Bitch Ray has launched a passionate defence ...

They spoke on a recent day in their Berlin studio as they giggled and tripped over their own stanzas — which exploit a feature of German grammar that crams nouns together into strings of syllables.

Support grammar by reminding pupils that days of the week in German are written with a capital letter. Support pronunciation by highlighting [ç] ch sound in 'Mittwoch'.