Considering Hochdeutsch (high German? well...
![:huh:](images/smilies/xso_huh.gif)
) is hardly spoken anywhere in Germany (my class did a trip to Berlin and people were surprised about us speaking
better German than they did
![:S](images/smilies/msn_confused.gif)
(we're Spaniards)), you have to think that maybe there are people who prefer their German dialect to Hochdeutsch. Same thing happened with Valencian: hardly any difference with Catalan, but still prefered by many people.
Understand that their dialect is mcuh like their own language. and a Swiss will prefer Schweitzerdeutsch as they're more used to it.
But I still wanna know if there's any regulated spelling difference. Afaik, as I said, the pronounciation is really different, but the spelling and grammar kept the same.