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Paper cuttings made by 17th-century schoolgirls discovered beneath floorboards

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210 points benbreen | 5 comments | 23 Jul 24 04:33 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
1. tempodox ◴[27 Jul 24 08:19 UTC] No.41085202[source]▶
Too bad “hean” was a misspelling. A hitherto unknown mythical bird would have been even more interesting. Or was it a species that became extinct?
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2. veltas ◴[27 Jul 24 10:19 UTC] No.41085589[source]▶
Standard spelling was only being proposed around this time, so it's not a misspelling.
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3. SoftTalker ◴[27 Jul 24 16:05 UTC] No.41087410[source]▶
I was suprised to see that claimed as a misspelling. The lettering was very neat, nearly perfect otherwise, so with that evident attention to detail I thought a misspelling was unlikely. I assumed it was just an older variation of the spelling.
4. maronato ◴[27 Jul 24 18:07 UTC] No.41088293[source]▶
The article says it is a misspelling.
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5. thechao ◴[27 Jul 24 19:26 UTC] No.41088720{3}[source]▶
The fact that misspelling doesn't have 3 s's is one of the great tragedies of English orthography.

> missspelling