At 19:49 +0100 2004-09-21, Timothy Partridge wrote:
Some abbreviations (about twenty?) did have more common use and there are many 19th century UK books published in "record type" which reproduce ancient records. Many of the abbreviations don't have a unique expansion so converting into expanded plain text loses the original ambiguity.
Correct, and work is ongoing to encode them. If you have references please forward them to me.
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