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Originally Posted by HarryT
Sure. Almost nobody reads Shakespeare with "First Folio" spelling, for example.
Eg:
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".
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And not many people, I think, read the original books with the 'long s' as in Walpole's original text and in Ann Radcliffe's original
The Italian.