[Ads-l] "early" apostrophe plural

Jonathan Lighter wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM
Sat Aug 26 23:09:11 UTC 2023


Scroll down to the image: "Hunter's of Kentucky."

https://kynghistory.ky.gov/Media/Music/Pages/Hunters-of-Kentucky.aspx

The correct date of the broadside, however, is "ca1822", not "1815."


JL

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