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/ 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

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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

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• 100£

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