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Curmudgeon

And, yes, early #Quakers were weird.

We're still weird, just in different ways.

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Evan Gallagher (he/him)

@jetton Few people seem to get that, unlike modern pronoun rants, this was a rant *for* equality against the still newish practice of using ‘you’ to flatter social ‘superiors’. If ‘thou’ was good enough for God, it was good enough for me and thee.

Still, a fun rant to look back on.

TRNottommy

@jetton Someday I want know if there’s a rule for using long S vs curvy S

seems like there’s not

Curmudgeon

@notGordonAllport
Long s at the beginning of a word or in the middle. Short s at the end.

just adrienne

@jetton @notGordonAllport Also if there's a doubled 's', you would generally use short 's' for the second of the two, so for instance "possess" would usually be "poſseſs" rather than "poſſeſs". (This isn't consistent but it was general practice; it's just more readable).

Christine Munro 🧀

@adrienne @jetton @notGordonAllport I've seen a few of these, often with ligatures (even in typeface), so kinda like a modern German ß but with a tail.

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