Talk:The English and Scottish Popular Ballads/Part 4/Chapter 84
Latest comment: 5 years ago by Thnidu in topic plus sign?
plus sign?[edit]
Version A, line 3, is
- That Sir John Gra+eme, in the West Country,
Surely there's no plus sign in the original! A typo?
--Thnidu (talk) 05:15, 1 August 2018 (UTC)
- @Thnidu: based on this facsimile it seems like it was an attempt to denote 'æ'. It's fixed now. Thank you for pointing it out. Prosody (talk) 23:42, 1 August 2018 (UTC)
- @Prosody: Thanks. I suspected as much, but without source I wasn't going to change it. --Thnidu (talk) 23:52, 1 August 2018 (UTC)