George Washington's spelling

[Joel S. Berson]

I've been reading a lot of 18th c. American writing, and the spelling
is, to say the least, idiosyncratic.  I haven't read much of
Washington.  How true to his original text are the multivolume,
ongoing _Papers_ (Univ. of Virginia)?  And I assume that one should
ignore that written by secretaries.

Joel

At 2/22/2008 01:19 PM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
>My recollection is that it was quite bad even by 18th C. standards,
>but I'd have to check to be sure.
>
>   It wasn't laffably bad tho.
>
>   JL
>
>Mark Mandel <thnidu at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
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>How did it compare with that of his contemporaries?
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>On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 10:45 AM, Jonathan Lighter
>wrote:
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> > I've seen exx. of his spelling. IIRC, it was pretty bad, at least in his
> > youth.
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