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  1. Iain Aschendale

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    It's not spelling, it's simply an older typeface. Here's the Wikipedia article on it.
     
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    Oh cool!
     
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    Yeah a lot of the primary source documents I have have been rewritten after some, ahem, deciphering of the spelling and handwriting during the mid-1800s to early 1900s on typewriters. Calendar of State Papers books, Acts of the Privy Council archive, Collection of State Trials...
     
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    Interesting theory - like the German graphene (ß)?

    We have an eighteenth century book on the upkeep of the "horfe"* somewhere so I don't think it''s just doubles, I think it is just a typeface** - it was still prounounced as "s"


    *Useless fact - a remedy for colic in horfef - "take a live cat, and cleave it down the chine..." I kid you not. A warm cat poultice was considered beneficial for the collicky horse (not, I presume, that it did much for the cat!)

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    ** as @Iain Aschendale mentions above!
     
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    Eilmer of Malmesbury.

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    Well, he's a bigger buzzkill than Buzz Killington.
     
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    Apparently the new Godzilla movie(King of the Monsters) will have three actors doing motion capture for KIng Ghidorah's individual heads and I just... I'm imagining something like this:
     
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    As long as we're learning to breakdance:

     
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    Belly dancing is very different from breakdancing you philistine.
     
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    Yeah, I've never had the damn breakdancing club show up at a restaurant and ruin my dinner with their flopping around.
     
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    Meeesa lichen dis dance breakende
     
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    When having a dress shirt made by a tailor, a gentleman should be certain to wear his bulkiest wristwatch to the initial measuring session and subsequent fittings. The tailor will construct the garment with the diameter of the watch-hand sleeve slightly larger to ensure that the cloth is able to fit correctly over the jewelry.
     
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    Mr. (Fred) Rogers went to high school with Arnold Palmer. In case you've wondered why anyone would name a character on a children's TV show Mr. McFeely, that was Rogers' middle name.
     
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    Ugh... Shades of the BSG reboot episode 1
     
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    Cats are such specialised pouncers they can't see directly in front of them very well so their whiskers move forward to feel what's their and catch vibrations. when the whiskers are out to side they can also measure the width of a gap. Basically the whiskers are their blind man walking stick because their farsighted but refuse to wear glasses.
     
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