The Bruce 2The s with the ornamental curl I read as merely s; Jamieson and
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The Bruce 2
The s with the ornamental curl I read as merely s; Jamieson and
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Skeat take it as, generally, = ss. But such alternative forms as Parys, purches, and purpos, on the one hand, and the actual use of the tailed letter following the ordinary type in dress, press, fix the usage I have adopted. There are a few exceptions in which this letter is probably a contraction for is--e.g., II. 366, 459.
I. 345.
II. 572.
III. 287.
XIV. 246; XVI. 253.
Cf. also in Gregory Smith’s Specimens of Middle Scots, p. xxx.
2. I have distributed their modern values to i, j, u, v, w. There is no advantage in preserving such forms as iugis, Evrope, wndyr: the hedge of the language--to use Lowell’s simile--is prickly enough without these accessories. Moreover, I have throughout written Edward for Eduuard or Eduard and Inglis for Ynglis (C).
