Alternative spellings

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

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accasion acknowlege administer'd admitt alledge allowd allways anomalities answerd/ answer'd antient assurtains auther/ authors autrescorps aword ax bestow'd bigness bindes bother'd burthen caprisious causeaicun centenel Centinel/ Centinel's characteristick characterize cheif chuse cloaths/ cloathes/ cloathed/ cloathing coffeehouses cognezance colors committ compacts

compleat/ compleatly comprized connexion consider'd controul/ controuling convey'd correspond councetions curiositys declar'd defeazance delivring denuntiation depretiation desception divers/ diverts d pending draught

e'en effecacious employd/ employ'd encrease/ encreasing enlighten'd enterd/ / enter'd/ entere'd enterprize enuntiation equiample essentiel expence falshood farther favor fixt follow'd forbiden fuiture fulfill

G-L

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• gallymafry

• guaranty

• gulph

• happen'd

• harbor

• highway man

• Ilhestrate

• Im

• imprest

• inclin'd

• incumbrance

• innevitable

• intelligencies

• irreconcileable/ irreconciliably

• intituled

• its/ it's

• Jailor

• jealosy

• knowlege

• labor

• ligislature

• linnen/ linnens

• livelyhood

M-R

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• maqest

• mean while

• mear/ meer/ meerly

• mechanisim

• misdemeanors/ misdemesnors

• mixt

• murder'd

• natâ

• neighbors/ neighboring

• o

• obeyd/ obey'd

• obuse

• oeconomy

• occurr(s)/ occurrs

• obbligation

• omitt

• past (for passed)

• percieve

• perplex'd

• plaid

• polution

• Popish

• possesst

• preexisting

• prepar'd

• pretious

• propos'd

• propperly

• publickly

• publishd

• receivers

• recognized

• recompence

• register'd

• remdying

• rememberd

• render'd

• repugnancis

• retaind

• Romish

S-Z

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• savory

• scatter'd

• seemd/ seem'd

• shew/ shews/ shewn/ shewed/ shewing

• signifys

• slumber'd

• sollicitor

• sollicitous

• somthing

• stigmatization

• stile (for style)

• stopt

• St Pauls

• submitt

• subtilty

• suffer'd

• surendrers

• surmisers

• sympathis'd

• tell

• temper'd

• thelogious

• tho'

• to

• traffick

• tythes

• tranquillity

• tyed

• unapprentised

• untill

• utterd

• Vice roys

• vitious

• wast

• whatsorelates

• whither

• withold

• worde