Re: Translating 18th century English.

From	John Ames <commodorejohn@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	alt.literature
Subject	Re: Translating 18th century English.
Date	2026-08-27 07:51 -0700
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On Thu, 27 Aug 2026 14:08:33 +1000
Peter Jason <pj@jostle.com> wrote:

> Thanks to all, I tried this but then all the "f" turned to "s"s.  I
> used Word find & replace.

If that's the case then you're probably reading a text that was OCRed
with tools that didn't recognize the long S and turned it into a lower-
case f - in which case you're likely gonna have to do find-and-replace
corrections on individual words as you go.

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Translating 18th century English. Peter Jason <pj@jostle.com> - 2026-08-26 13:56 +1000
  Re: Translating 18th century English. John Ames <commodorejohn@gmail.com> - 2026-08-26 10:59 -0700
  Re: Translating 18th century English. Steve Hayes <hayesstw@telkomsa.net> - 2026-08-27 05:47 +0200
    Re: Translating 18th century English. Peter Jason <pj@jostle.com> - 2026-08-27 14:08 +1000
      Re: Translating 18th century English. Steve Hayes <hayesstw@telkomsa.net> - 2026-08-27 11:51 +0200
      Re: Translating 18th century English. John Ames <commodorejohn@gmail.com> - 2026-08-27 07:51 -0700

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