the removal of hyphens in general but keep the archaic spellings. This
On 3/14/23 6:38 PM, Anne Dattilo wrote:
> I was going to retain the other modernizations-- they are mainly
> hyphenations (to-night -> tonight, to-morrow-> tomorrow, small-pox ->
> smallpox, etc), but there are some other spelling changes (scolloped ->
> scalloped, ribands -> ribbons, lanthorn -> lantern, inflexion ->
> inflection). Should I leave them all?
>
> On Tue, Mar 14, 2023 at 12:49 PM Alex Cabal <
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> <mailto:
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>
> Yes, but this book was written at the turn of the century when that
> spelling was already archaic, so it has a purposefully old style.
> Therefore I think we can leave them all in this case. The Wikipedia
> article also makes a big point of the prose style.
>
> On 3/14/23 6:35 AM, Robin Whittleton wrote:
> > Personally, I wouldn’t hesitate to modernise that. The flavour of
> the
> > text comes out in the wording and phrasing, not in soundalike
> spelling
> > changes.
> >
> > -Robin
> >
> >> On 14 Mar 2023, at 10:15, David <
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>>, of which many (but not all) are in poetry. So there is plenty of precedent for retaining `shew*` where appropriate.
> >>
> >> But as to whether that's appropriate *here*, I'll be interested to
> >> hear from the editorial team. ;-)
> >>
> >> David / Fife, UK
> >>
> >> On Tuesday, 14 March 2023 at 06:17:38 UTC
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