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Originally Posted by DaleDe
Interesting. Putting errors back in the text to match a paper edition is not my idea of what I prefer to read.
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I like it, because it reflects the English usage of the period. Would you re-write Shakespeare in "modern" English? Austen's English is sufficiently old that personally I think that it should be read in its original spellings, which, indeed, are what most "reputable" printed editions (Oxford World Classics, Penguin Classics, etc) use. Someone has gone through the PG text (which I used previously) and "rationalised" the spelling, which I don't like. One is not then reading what Austen wrote.
However, as you very rightly say, each to his own
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What do other people think?