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by heeen
4164 days ago
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The mistake was probably made by confusing one of the two variants of 's' that were used back then with a 'f':
The one that looks like an f was only used at the beginning of words, also within compound nouns.
In this example, one would read as "guardroom", the other as "wax tube"
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