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Re: British vs American Spelling
From: Dan Allen
Date: 2005 Apr 25, 09:11 -0600
From: Dan Allen
Date: 2005 Apr 25, 09:11 -0600
On Apr 23, 2005, at 5:17 PM, Peter Fogg wrote: > Am still a bit puzzled by 'shew'. Not only is it unfamiliar, but it > sounds > positively Elizabethan?! Shew is simply an older or archaic form of 'show'. It is used often in the King James Bible, for example. Dan