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u/v, i/j, and transcribing other early modern textual oddities
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u/v, i/j, and transcribing other early modern textual oddities

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Sarah Werner

When you’re encountering early modern texts for the first time, you might be surprised not only that they use such variable spelling (heart? hart? harte?) but they seem to use the wrong letters in some places. And then there are…