Printed Early Modern English
While I can muddle through the spelling differences, some of the printing conventions of Early Modern English were less obvious. These are some of the things I encountered while thumbing through The 1560 Geneva Bible.
Printed | Notes |
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s, ſ | The same letter. s always used at the end of a word. |
i, j | The same letter. |
u, v | The same letter. v at the start of a word, u otherwise. |
◌̃ | An m or n ligature. (The actual printed character is a little closer to an n; the tilde is an approximation.) Ex: “cõmãded” is “commanded” |
ô | ough Ex: “thrô” is “through” |
wͨ | which |
wͭ | with |
yͤ | thee; you (the) |
yͭ | that |
yͧ | thou; you |