Pedants' Paradise

[LMcD]

Looks like the gates get searched too (or maybe they've got lost/escaped and the hunt is on for them!):

Prison security rules acknowledge that at times insufficient staffing might mean the gate searches have to be managed “according to risk”. However, they add: “The expectation is that all visitors and staff entering the prison will be subject to enhanced gate search procedures.”

What's an 'enhanced gate'?

[french frank]

Gadzooks - wot no medial s on your keyboard?

I didn't investigate, just copied m'friend's style. I did wonder if I should attempt a yt with a superscript t, but without Word I can't see how to do it. Must resurrect the old Mac to see if it's possible.

y^t

[vinteuil]

y^t

... yͭ's the way to do it!




.alþo.... þͭ's possible too?

[AuntDaisy]

... y^t's the way to do it!
.alþo....

Almoſt (U+017F)

[vinteuil]

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... ſo grateful!

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[AuntDaisy]

... ſo grateful!

[french frank]

Almoſt (U+017F)

ſ ſ Shift+option on the Unicode hex keyboard. I found it, then lost it. then found it again.

[AuntDaisy]

ſ ſ Shift+option on the Unicode hex keyboard. I found it, then lost it. then found it again.

ſeek, and ye ſhall find

[french frank]

ſeek, and ye ſhall find

Indeed, I'll know what to do when m. vinteuil quotes Dr Johnſon again.

[oliver sudden]

https://images.app.goo.gl/Kbv3v1nDxwHmKe4s7

ehem

[french frank]

https://images.app.goo.gl/Kbv3v1nDxwHmKe4s7

ehem

[vinteuil]

.... from AuntDaisy's #6222 above - " the effective introduction of the reform in England was credited to the printer and publisher John Bell who in his British Theatre of 1791 used the short s throughout. /.../ Though it would be amusing to do so, there seems to be no reason to accept the legend that Bell initiated the change in his edition of Shakespeare because of his dismay at the appearance of the long s in Ariel's song in The Tempest: "Where the bee sucks, there suck I."

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[oliver sudden]

Over here, the long s survives as the left-hand half of the ß (the right-hand half being one of those zeds that looks a bit like a 3)…

[french frank]

I have this ∫ (option+b) on the ordinary keyboard, which seems to be a variant (italic), without the half cross bar.

[smittims]

Mention of the long s reminds me of the double lower-case f, as in 'ffiona ffortescue-ffoliott-ffrench'. It's simply an old way of writing a capital F, but some writers mistake it, writing, for example 'Ffrench' (sic).