Re: CHAT: C in Greek Alphabet

In a message dated 4/10/2007 7:23:42 AM Central Daylight Time,
markjreed@MAIL.COM writes:


> It wasn't an opinion or a rule, but an observation about the
> Declaration of Independence document.  "When in the course of human
> events, it becomes necefsary..."
>
> > Also see The Internet, which is never lying:
> >
> > http://www.unknown.nu/misc/declaration
> >
> > 'dissolve' also has double long s in that text.
>
> Sure, but that's text that someone typed in.  If you check out an
> image of the actual handwritten document, e.g.
>
> http://www.au.af.mil/au/awc/awcgate/readings/declaration_image.jpg
>
> you'll see the long-short alternation in "necessary", "dissolve", etc.
> --
> Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...>
>
There are a lot of differences between those two versions: wording, short vs.
long 's', punctuation, capitalization.

It's hard to believe the typed version was made from the handwritten version.

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