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Tag Archives: salem wich trials
Proscription of the ampersand?
Peter Grund (Yale University), Erik Smitterberg (Uppsala University) and Matti Peikola (University of Turku) are co-writing a paper about recorders’ use of the ampersand (vs. and) in the Salem witch trial documents of the 1690s. One of the questions they … Continue reading
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Tagged ampersand, prescriptivism abbreviations, salem wich trials
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