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* acknowlege
* acknowlege


* administer'd
* administer'd  


* admitt
* admitt/ admitts


* alledge
* alledge/ alledged


* allowd
* allowd


* allways
* allways
* all-work
* alter'd
* almanack
* anelysed


* anomalities
* anomalities
* anothers
* appeard


* answerd/ answer'd
* answerd/ answer'd
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* antient
* antient


* appeard
* appeard/ appear'd


* assurtains
* assurtains
* Attornies


* auther/ authors
* auther/ authors
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* ax
* ax
* b


* Bacons
* Bacons
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* ballastiage
* ballastiage
* battel
* batchelor


* behavour
* behavour


* behoves
* behoves
* Benthams


* bestow'd
* bestow'd
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* bother'd
* bother'd


* burthen
* burthensome


* caprisious
* caprisious
* caus


* causeaicun
* causeaicun


* centenel
* centenel
* center


* Centinel/ Centinel's
* Centinel/ Centinel's
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* cloth
* cloth
* clumsy


* coffeehouses
* coffeehouses
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* colors
* colors
* comand


* committ
* committ
* committments


* compacts
* compacts
* compilling


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</td>
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* compleat/ compleatly
* compleat/ compleatly/ incompleat-


* comprized/ comprizes
* comprized/ comprizes/ comprizing
 
* comunity
 
* concurr


* confederacey
* confederacey
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* connexion
* connexion


* consider'd
* consider'd/ considerd


* controul/ controuling
* controul/ controuling
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* conveniant
* conveniant


* convey'd
* convey'd/ conveyd


* correspond
* correspond


* councetions
* councetions
* crevises


* curiositys
* curiositys
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* dependance
* dependance
* dependy


* depretiation
* depretiation
* Depute


* desception
* desception


* discover'd
* discover'd
* discription
* distruction


* divers/ diverts
* divers/ diverts
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* essentiel
* essentiel
* evidenc
* exhilerating


* existd
* existd
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* ffeoffee/ ffeoffees
* ffeoffee/ ffeoffees
* fire-side


* fixt
* fixt
* flower for flour


* follow'd
* follow'd
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* fuiture
* fuiture


* fulfill
* fulfill
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* gallymafry
* gallymafry


* Gaol/ Goaler/ Goal/ gaoler
* Gaol/ gaoler/ gaolers/ Gaols/ Goal/ Goaler/ 


* guaranty
* guaranty
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* harbor
* harbor
* have-not


* hereinabovementioned
* hereinabovementioned
* heuristick


* highway man
* highway man


& Hudibrass
* Holydays
 
* Hudibrass


* Ilhestrate
* Ilhestrate


* Im
* Im
* Imbecilliority
* imbecillity


* imprest
* imprest
* imprisenm<hi rend='superscript'>t</hi>


* imployed
* imployed
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* incumbrance
* incumbrance
* indued


* inrollment
* inrollment
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* intelligencies
* intelligencies
* interlocutoraly


* irreconcileable/ irreconciliably
* irreconcileable/ irreconciliably


* intituled/ intitled
* intituled/ intitled
* isue


* its/ it's
* its/ it's
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* jealosy
* jealosy
* journies


* Jurymans
* Jurymans
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* Lords-day
* Lords-day
* lower'd


== M-R ==
== M-R ==
----
----
* MailCoach
* manofested
* maqest
* maqest
* magnificance


* mean while
* mean while
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* mechanisim
* mechanisim
* misbhaviour


* misdemeanors/ misdemesnors
* misdemeanors/ misdemesnors
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* mixtur
* mixtur
* money'd


* murder'd
* murder'd


* natâ
* natâ
* nead


* neighbors/ neighboring
* neighbors/ neighboring
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* oeconomy
* oeconomy


* occurr(s)/ occurrs
* occurr(s)/ occurrs/ occurr


* obbligation
* obbligation
* oferred


* omitt
* omitt
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* perplex'd
* perplex'd


* plaid
* plaid/ play'd


* polution
* polution
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* pretious
* pretious
* prier


* prisoners
* prisoners
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* propperly
* propperly
* Provinses


* publickly
* publickly


* publishd
* publishd
* punctuallity


* purchace
* purchace
* pusillammity
* realized


* receivers
* receivers
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* recompence
* recompence
* refering


* refeurees
* refeurees


* register'd
* register'd/ registerd
 
* relinguised


* remdying
* remdying
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* rememberd/ remember'd
* rememberd/ remember'd


* render'd
* render'd/ renderd


* repaird
* repaird
* republick


* repugnancis
* repugnancis
* respect


* retaind
* retaind
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* scatter'd
* scatter'd
* scite
* secresy


* seemd/ seem'd
* seemd/ seem'd
* serieses


* shew/ shews/ shewn/ shewed/ shewing
* shew/ shews/ shewn/ shewed/ shewing


* signifys
* signifys
* slight for sleight
* slipt


* slumber'd
* slumber'd
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* sollicitous
* sollicitous
* somebddy


* somthing
* somthing
* sower for sour


* stigmatization
* stigmatization


* stile (for style)
* stiled


* stopt
* stopt
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* submitt
* submitt
* subsistance


* subtilty
* subtilty
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* surmisers
* surmisers
* surpress


* Surry
* Surry
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* tell
* tell
* Taylors


* temper'd
* temper'd


* thelogious
* thelogious
* thier


* tho'
* tho'


* to
* to
* to-gether


* traffick
* traffick
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* unapprentised
* unapprentised
* undefendd


* untill
* untill
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* wast
* wast
* week


* whatsorelates
* whatsorelates
* wher


* whither
* whither
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* worde
* worde
* your's
== Miscellaneous ==
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* 100£
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Latest revision as of 15:05, 9 May 2025

Jeremy Bentham often used alternative, unusual, or idiosyncratic spellings in his writings. This page lists some spellings that you may encounter in the manuscripts. This list will become a resource for other users, so feel free to edit this page, adding any alternative spellings that you have met in the course of your transcription work.

A-F


  • accasion
  • acknowlege
  • administer'd
  • admitt/ admitts
  • alledge/ alledged
  • allowd
  • allways
  • all-work
  • alter'd
  • almanack
  • anelysed
  • anomalities
  • anothers
  • appeard
  • answerd/ answer'd
  • antient
  • appeard/ appear'd
  • assurtains
  • Attornies
  • auther/ authors
  • autrescorps
  • aword
  • ax
  • b
  • Bacons
  • ballance
  • ballastiage
  • battel
  • batchelor
  • behavour
  • behoves
  • Benthams
  • bestow'd
  • bigness
  • bindes
  • Black Friars
  • bother'd
  • burthensome
  • caprisious
  • caus
  • causeaicun
  • centenel
  • center
  • Centinel/ Centinel's
  • characteristick
  • characterize
  • cheif
  • chuse
  • cloaths/ cloathes/ cloathed/ cloathing/
  • cloth
  • clumsy
  • coffeehouses
  • cognezance
  • colors
  • comand
  • committ
  • committments
  • compacts
  • compilling
  • compleat/ compleatly/ incompleat-
  • comprized/ comprizes/ comprizing
  • comunity
  • concurr
  • confederacey
  • connexion
  • consider'd/ considerd
  • controul/ controuling
  • conveniant
  • convey'd/ conveyd
  • correspond
  • councetions
  • crevises
  • curiositys
  • declar'd
  • defeazance
  • delivring
  • denuntiation
  • dependance
  • dependy
  • depretiation
  • Depute
  • desception
  • discover'd
  • discription
  • distruction
  • divers/ diverts
  • devisce/ devisces
  • d pending/
  • draught
  • e'en
  • effecacious
  • employd/ employ'd
  • encrease/ encreasing/ encreased
  • enjoy'd/ enjoyd
  • enlighten'd
  • enterd/ / enter'd/ entere'd
  • enterprize
  • enuntiation
  • equiample
  • essentiel
  • evidenc
  • exhilerating
  • existd
  • expence/ expences
  • falshood
  • farther
  • favor
  • ffeoffee/ ffeoffees
  • fire-side
  • fixt
  • flower for flour
  • follow'd
  • forbiden
  • fuiture


  • fulfill

G-L


  • gallymafry
  • Gaol/ gaoler/ gaolers/ Gaols/ Goal/ Goaler/
  • guaranty
  • gulph
  • happen'd
  • harbor
  • have-not
  • hereinabovementioned
  • heuristick
  • highway man
  • Holydays
  • Hudibrass
  • Ilhestrate
  • Im
  • Imbecilliority
  • imbecillity
  • imprest
  • imprisenmt
  • imployed
  • inclin'd
  • incumbrance
  • indued
  • inrollment
  • intitled
  • innevitable
  • intelligencies
  • interlocutoraly
  • irreconcileable/ irreconciliably
  • intituled/ intitled
  • isue
  • its/ it's
  • Jailor
  • jealosy
  • journies
  • Jurymans
  • knowlege
  • labor
  • ligislature
  • linnen/ linnens
  • livelyhood
  • Lords
  • Lords-day
  • lower'd

M-R


  • MailCoach
  • manofested
  • maqest
  • magnificance
  • mean while
  • mear/ meer/ meerly
  • mechanisim
  • misbhaviour
  • misdemeanors/ misdemesnors
  • mixt
  • mixtur
  • money'd
  • murder'd
  • natâ
  • nead
  • neighbors/ neighboring
  • nusance
  • o
  • obeyd/ obey'd
  • obuse
  • oeconomy
  • occurr(s)/ occurrs/ occurr
  • obbligation
  • oferred
  • omitt
  • open'd
  • orther
  • past (for passed)
  • percieve/ perceivd
  • perplex'd
  • plaid/ play'd
  • polution
  • Ponopticon
  • Popish
  • possesst
  • preexisting
  • prepar'd
  • pretious
  • prier
  • prisoners
  • procurd
  • propos'd
  • propperly
  • Provinses
  • publickly
  • publishd
  • punctuallity
  • purchace
  • pusillammity
  • realized
  • receivers
  • recognized
  • recompence
  • refering
  • refeurees
  • register'd/ registerd
  • relinguised
  • remdying
  • rememberd/ remember'd
  • render'd/ renderd
  • repaird
  • republick
  • repugnancis
  • respect
  • retaind
  • Romish

S-Z


  • savory
  • scatter'd
  • scite
  • secresy
  • seemd/ seem'd
  • serieses
  • shew/ shews/ shewn/ shewed/ shewing
  • signifys
  • slight for sleight
  • slipt
  • slumber'd
  • Sollicitation
  • sollicitor
  • sollicitous
  • somebddy
  • somthing
  • sower for sour
  • stigmatization
  • stiled
  • stopt
  • St Pauls
  • submitt
  • subsistance
  • subtilty
  • suffer'd
  • superintendance
  • surendrers
  • surmisers
  • surpress
  • Surry
  • sympathis'd
  • tell
  • Taylors
  • temper'd
  • thelogious
  • thier
  • tho'
  • to
  • to-gether
  • traffick
  • tythes
  • tranquillity
  • twelvemonth
  • twentyfourth
  • tyed
  • unapprentised
  • undefendd
  • untill
  • utterd
  • Vice roys
  • vitious
  • wast
  • week
  • whatsorelates
  • wher
  • whither
  • withold
  • withsuch
  • worde
  • your's

Miscellaneous


  • 100£

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