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Originally Posted by ekbell
My preference is for spelling to be modernized but words left unchanged with explanations when the meaning has changed,
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Sure. Almost nobody reads Shakespeare with "First Folio" spelling, for example.
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Flauius. Hence: home you idle Creatures, get you home:
Is this a Holiday? What, know you not
(Being Mechanicall) you ought not walke
Vpon a labouring day, without the signe
Of your Profession? Speake, what Trade art thou?
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Words like "mechanicall", "walke", "signe", etc, tend to be replaced with modern spellings, as do the now-obsolete use of "U" and "V", as in "Vpon" and "Flauius" for "Upon" and "Flavius".