[Ads-l] a mysterious term, 1792

[James A. Landau]

On  Thu, 31 Mar 2016 14:31:25 +0000 Joel Berson <berson at ATT.NET> wrote:

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The "-ers" in the Catskill Packet?  The Dutch plural would have -en.  An 
insertion by an English speaker of the -er suffix that he would expect 
for an agent noun?  Or, George, might there be an OCR mistranscription 
of "en" into "er", which was combined by the nespaper with an erroneous 
addition of the "s" customary in English plurals?
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I am very much impressed that the Catskill Packet was using OCR as early as 1792.  It must have been a very progressive newspaper.

- Jim Landau



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