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HelpRe: WDYT 15th century English ancestors
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Osyth/Osithe is very cool! You should revive it in your family.
It's funny how the alternate spellings resemble kre8tiv spellings of today! Those dang trendy 15th century people! ;)
It's funny how the alternate spellings resemble kre8tiv spellings of today! Those dang trendy 15th century people! ;)
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I was thinking the same thing when I saw some of those spellings...
Very tryndee!
Very tryndee!
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I know. I'm reading a biography about one of the Pilgrims right now (some of my ancestors were on the Mayflower), and in the exceprts, their spelling was horrible. I don't think they had standard spellings for anything back then. William Brewster (on the Mayflower) studied at Cambridge, but signed the Mayflower Compact Willim. Thank God for Noah Wester, no matter how weird the spellings seem.
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