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feintruled
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Nobody Pronounces the 'B' in 'Debt'
Always found it odd how in older books, names were so often abbreviated. William becomes Wm. or Edward to Edwd. for example. Seemed a strange practice as they were no stranger to verbosity in other respects.
TheFreim
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Possibly higher cost per page made it more important to condense as much material while still retaining meaning.
Mountain_Skies
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Jas. being an abbreviated form of James used to be common but certainly isn't a relationship I would have guessed between the two.
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