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Re: British vs American Spelling
From: Lu Abel
Date: 2005 Apr 24, 15:36 -0700
From: Lu Abel
Date: 2005 Apr 24, 15:36 -0700
The King James Bible uses "shew" instead of "show." So one would assume it in common use in the 17th century. Or maybe not -- I have a friend whose PhD thesis was on English bible translations, she claims that James's scholars used obsolete-for-them English in the KJV to give it an air of ancient authority (much like many of the prayers we hear in church today). Lu Abel Glenn Geers wrote: > I've only seen "shew" used in old mathematics books (Whittacker and Watson has > been mentioned). I have seen o with an umlaut used as well. The usage seems > to be for the imperative form, viz. "Shew that..." which is a fairly common > way to start Mathematics questions.
