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NegativeLatency
451 days ago
Spelling used to be more fluid and up to the writer/printer. Printers would also use different spellings as a mechanism to change the line width and otherwise format text to their liking.
https://www.ruf.rice.edu/~kemmer/Histengl/spelling.html