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A g[h]ost story

Once upon a time in a faraway land – or to be exact, some 550 years ago in England, a non-native English-speaker from Flanders who was a compositor or typesetter for the printer William Caxton, decided to add the letter <h> into the word ghost. Or so the story goes, as per e.g. and i.a., […]

Posted byklaiOctober 31, 2019Posted inaside, digital humanities, lexisTags: CEEC, EEBO, lexicography, spelling, vocabularyLeave a comment on A g[h]ost story

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