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Declaration of Independance - Spelling

Last paragraph of the Declaration of Independence our Fore-Fathers misspelled the word British by spelling it Brittish. Just a bit of useless info.

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Contributed By: Anonymous on 06-14-2001 and Reviewed By: Webmaster

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Liss writes:: Actually spelling of words has changed throughout the course of history. In those days words were spelled differently.; 15 of 6576 found this helpful. Did you?

Mindy Doll writes:: Yeah, after Webster re-invented English, so many words are screwed up. Take color and colour...; 15 of 6576 found this helpful. Did you?

Moocher King writes:: Liss is right. If you look at many old documents you will see many words spelled differently than we do now. Speaking of spelling, on your title you spelled Independence wrong.; 15 of 6576 found this helpful. Did you?

MWProds writes:: And I assume the writer's misspelling of word as "INDEPENDANCE" in headline is his/her wry way of commenting on misspelling of the word British...?; 15 of 6576 found this helpful. Did you?

Flute-playing Band Geek writes:: You know, you should work on your spelling before you talk about other people's spelling mistakes...(Check your title); 15 of 6576 found this helpful. Did you?

TwinkieRabbit writes:: if you read old documents or quotes, they tack E's onto the end of some words (olde, shoppe) and put two of a letter that there now is only one of (mellon, and in this case, Brittish). in those days they did not have a standardized dictionary, however they could think to spell a word was right.; 15 of 6576 found this helpful. Did you?

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