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Did anyone else notice this weird typographical sequence? >and innocent "perfons," warning that "prefumptive evidences fhould be warily preffed." 77 What exac
by petsfed 3y ago
Did anyone else notice this weird typographical sequence?
>and innocent "perfons," warning that "prefumptive evidences fhould be warily preffed." 77 What exactly a perfon is may be a fruitful fubject for further refearch.
I expect its because of a steady evolution of the way English is written, but it is so jarring I had to go back and reread the rest of the article to confirm that it was just very specific uses of the letter 's' that justified being turned into 'f'
- svat 3y agoThe author is making fun of the long s in the quote: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_s https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_s (rules: https://www.babelstone.co.uk/Blog/2006/06/rules-for-long-s.html https://www.babelstone.co.uk/Blog/2006/06/rules-for-long-s.h... ), by reading it as "f". (As in Flanders and Swann "Greenfleeves")