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Originally Posted by wolf
Today, I signed a commitment warrant for a woman who wrote that her son had "tryed to cute my throuathe."
I finally figured it out, and her son really was crazy, but the whole idea of her being barely able to express herself in written English was more frightening than her son's behavior.
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Well, another explanation would be that the woman was 300 years old. In the 1700's there were almost no dictionaries and words legitimately had different spellings.
I visited Franklin's Post Office and exhibit and reading the samples of writing there required some translation.
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