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Originally Posted by Andybaby
I think its a good idea, some words no longer exist in English. Ere is not a word anymore, changing that to before will not change the book in any meaningful way. It would make it easier to read
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Does the fact that a word is no longer used in the current spoken language mean that it should be "expurgated" from books written at a time that it
was current? I'm afraid that I strongly disagree - books form our "literary heritage" and one thing they do is to keep old words "alive" in the mind of the reader.