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Not sure if this site is American! being of Scots lineage my understanding of Monroe is that this is a later derivative of the original Scots form from the Clan Munro of Foulis not the other way round on your otherwise excellent website.
Thanks
Not sure if this site is American! being of Scots lineage my understanding of Monroe is that this is a later derivative of the original Scots form from the Clan Munro of Foulis not the other way round on your otherwise excellent website.
Thanks
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My guess is that we're up against the dreaded Minim Letters ...
If you write letters like n, u, i, m in medieval script, or in cursive sometimes, it's very hard to tell them apart; the word 'minim' is a prime example if you leave the dots off the i letters, and those dots are a late development.
Which is why our intelligent ancestors often substituted an o for a u or an i - to make it easier to read. That would certainly help for Monroe! As it did for Home (instead of Hume), and women, which was sometimes written as: wymmen, but that never caught on.
Nice little thingies, minim letters - once you're alert to them, they pop up everywhere.
All the best
If you write letters like n, u, i, m in medieval script, or in cursive sometimes, it's very hard to tell them apart; the word 'minim' is a prime example if you leave the dots off the i letters, and those dots are a late development.
Which is why our intelligent ancestors often substituted an o for a u or an i - to make it easier to read. That would certainly help for Monroe! As it did for Home (instead of Hume), and women, which was sometimes written as: wymmen, but that never caught on.
Nice little thingies, minim letters - once you're alert to them, they pop up everywhere.
All the best
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Actually, this site is Canadian.
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