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There's some odd markup: > <div>you cant p<span class="ex">er</span>seve the suet from the meat</div> It's also around a possible spelling error"? (preserve
by fluxsauce 9y ago
There's some odd markup:
> <div>you cant p<span class="ex">er</span>seve the suet from the meat</div>
It's also around a possible spelling error"? (preserve vs perseve)
- bch 9y agoI think “perseve” == perceive.
- coroxout 9y agoThe markup flags up abbreviations. I'm not quite clear on the distinctions between the different tags but it looks like "ex" is for expansions/excluded letters and "sl" is something to do with superscript letters, or thereabouts. See here for more on early modern "secretary hand" abbreviations: https://www.english.cam.ac.uk/ceres/ehoc/conventions.html#contractions https://www.english.cam.ac.uk/ceres/ehoc/conventions.html#co...