In modern Greek, subscript iota was generally retained in use in the spelling of the archaizing "Katharevousa". It can also be found regularly in older printed Demotic in the 19th and early 20th century, but it is often absent from the modern spelling of present-day standard Greek. Even when present-day Greek is spelled in the traditional polytonic system, the number of instances where a subscript could be written is much smaller than in older forms of the language, because most of its typical grammatical environments no longer occur: the old dative case is not used in modern Greek except in a few fossilized phrases (e.g. "in the meantime"; "thank God!"), and the old spellings with in subjunctive verbs have been analogically replaced by those of the indicatives with (e.g. → ). In the monotonic standard orthography, subscript iota is not used.