On 10/27/05, Christopher Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Stewart Stremler wrote: > > begin quoting Christopher Smith as of Wed, Oct 26, 2005 at 01:54:07AM > > -0700: > >>Stewart Stremler wrote: > >>>Even within ASCII, there's more than one way to spell Shakespeare. That > >>>problem isn't really resolved by choosing a glyph-set. > >> > >>Actually, there is only one canonical spelling Shakespeare. The rest are > > > > There are two canonical spellings according to various English teachers > > I had in high school -- one set said "Shakespear" and the other > > "Shakespeare". > > One of your teachers was wrong. ;-) > > >>"other ways that people spell it". I'm sure you can find some historical > >>figure who's name was never spelled out in any kind of a canonical > >>context. > > > > Or didn't spell it consistently themselves.
Not to spoil a good argument, but during Shakespeare's lifetime there were twenty or more different ways that his name was spelled in various documents. For a study of this, see: < http://shakespeareauthorship.com/name1.html > carl -- carl lowenstein marine physical lab u.c. san diego [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-lpsg
