On Dec 15, 2008, at 5:28 AM, David Miller wrote:
> A case in point: Spenser sometimes spells "Britomart" as
> "Britomartis." Check Osgood to see how many of these variants he
> records. Then go to Renascence Editions' online version of the text
> and see how many other instances are turned up by a search for the
> term.
Or go to WordHoard (http://wordhoard.northwestern.edu), do a lemma
search on "britomart," group the result window by spelling, and note
that there are 85 matches with the spelling "britomart," 4 with the
spelling "britomartis," and 1 with the spelling "britomarts." Then do
a spelling search on each of the three spellings to confirm the count
(I did this and they match).
Also, unlike Osgood, we are still accepting error reports :-). There
will be another set of corrections rolled out in the next few weeks.
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