Joining together of 2 letters into a single character: most often ‘ct’, ‘st’
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Ampersand
Shortening for ‘and’ - & - a ligature of ‘et’ (Latin ‘and’) which is of course still used today
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Non-standard capitalisation
Ladies, Gentlewomen, Sermons…. Very often, although not exclusively, they are used for nouns regardless of where in the sentence they come. This is like modern German, where all nouns are capitalised (modern English only capitalises proper nouns of
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Standardisation
making all variations of language conform to an agreed set of rules.
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‘st
inflection on verb
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Joining together of 2 letters into a single character: most often ‘ct’, ‘st’
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