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Originally Posted by Araucaria
...the "long" initial letter "s" is written in a way that makes it look like, and get OCR-ed as, a quite different consonant.
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I always tend to read that as an F if I don't watch out for it, but fortunately, I only have two books old for it to be used in them.
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Originally Posted by Araucaria
So if you try the Ngram viewer from (say) 1700 to 2000 with the two words "suck" and another similar word, you'll find an astonishing amount of profanity was being published right up to about 1810, when it vanished almost entirely, and then suddenly reappeared in the mid-twentieth century.....
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LOL. It seems the OCR and I (me? I'll have to look that one up) think alike indeed
