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It's a good example in ways: he'd have to shoot the complete population of Ireland for the way they pronounce 'H' ;-)

Haven't heard that one about ignorami vs. ignoramuses before...

Quote from: tomos on August 29, 2013, 11:20 PM

maybe *you* have a fifter I could kiff ?

fo forry, fad to fay no fifter. 

Actually, that would be 'kiſs your ſiſter', consistent with the post-medieval/pre-modern usage of the archaic 'long s'^w. 
Glad to see it go, really.  I've a spelling-nazi streak in me that would have been driven to fits...

consistent with the post-medieval/pre-modern usage of the archaic 'long s'^w.

I guess that would be related to the German "scharfes S" (= "ß" ~ "ss"/"sz").
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Even though long s has otherwise disappeared from German orthography, ß is still used as a ligature and is replaced by 'SS' or 'SZ' in capitalized spelling. Its German name is Eszett, the lexicalized expression for "sz", from "es-zed") or scharfes S, "sharp S").

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seems to indicate that it co-existed with the "long s"...

I've a spelling-nazi streak in me that would have been driven to fits...

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and here I thought all along that you were this real chilled out kind of guy ;-) :p