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Reminds me of Lord Timothy Dexter's book 'Pickle for the knowing ones'. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Pickle_for_the_Knowing_Ones https://en.wikipedia.org/wik
by DrIronstein 3y ago
Reminds me of Lord Timothy Dexter's book 'Pickle for the knowing ones'.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Pickle_for_the_Knowing_Ones https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Pickle_for_the_Knowing_Ones
- ajb 3y agoAmazing: After receiving complaints about the lack of punctuation, Dexter published a second edition in 1805, this time containing pages full of punctuation in the appendix. He tells the readers to "peper and solt it as they plese." Amusing though these are, they illustrate why spelling reform is hard in English: spelling correctly has become a status marker, and any changed spelling looks not merely wrong, but also stupid and deserving of contempt.