Fri Aug 23 16:44:09 1996

From owner-tc-list  Fri Aug 23 16:44:09 1996
Return-Path: 
Received: by scholar.cc.emory.edu (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4)
	id QAA09017; Fri, 23 Aug 1996 16:43:17 -0400
X-Sender: waltzmn@popmail.skypoint.com
Message-Id: 
In-Reply-To: <9608231531.0LSQQ04@chrysalis.org>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
Date: Fri, 23 Aug 1996 15:37:03 -0700
To: tc-list@scholar.cc.emory.edu
From: "Robert B. Waltz" 
Subject: Spellings in p75 (was: COLLATION)
Sender: owner-tc-list@scholar.cc.emory.edu
Precedence: bulk
Reply-To: tc-list@scholar.cc.emory.edu
content-length: 1018

On Fri, 23 Aug 96, perry.stepp@chrysalis.org wrote:

>But even more to the point (to *my* point, at least): we shouldn't think of
>these itacisms as spelling errors or solecisms.  In an era when spelling
>is not
>standardized, "spelling error" is a meaningless concept.  For the author
>of the
>itacisms in P75, there weren't a thread of difference between IWANNHS and
>IWANHS--at least until someone slapped him/her upside the head and said, "at
>least be CONSISTENT!"

As I recall, in the case of p75, the scribe consistently wrote IWANHS in
Luke, got started on John and then -- apparently -- noticed that the "official"
spelling was IWANNHS. From that point on, he used IWANNHS almost consistently;
presumably IWANHS was his native spelling, but he was trying very hard to
get it right.

Even today, most of us have a few words we just can't seem to get right.
It took me about ten years to learn to write "government" for "govronment,"
and I *still* hesitate over "necessarily."

Bob Waltz
waltzmn@skypoint.com

Back