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Ben Franklin's Lightning Experiments Digitized
app103:
Benjamin Franklin's 1752 paper, describing his lightning experiments with a kite, is now online (in .pdf format) for a limited time.
Included in this document is Ben Franklin's recipe for cooking a tender turkey. :D
http://www.journals.royalsoc.ac.uk/openurl.asp?genre=article&issn=0260-7085&volume=47&spage=202
Note: When reading this document it will be necessary to replace many f-like characters, in your mind, with 's'. (I am sure glad we don't spell like that any more)
Deozaan:
To me that raises the following question:
Why are some of the S letters written like an F but not all of them? There are places that it has both right next to each other. Such as the word "less" written as "lefs." Makes no "fense" to me.
Edvard:
There were certain rules, obviously and if I remember correctly, it's always the first 's' gets it. I remember a friend of mine and I used to smoke hand-rolled cigarettes and his favorite tobacco brand came in a marshmallow-green tin and was called "Three Castles" except the first 's' looked like an 'f' so we pronounced it (on purpose) "three caftuls"
Ahh... memories ;D
housetier:
if I remember correctly there are three places where "S" can be in a word:
* at the beginning of a word
* somewhere in the middle of a word
* at the end of a word
And for some reason the typesetters of that time chose to make each of those cases look differently.
Edvard:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_s
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