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Dave Washburn Wrote:

> Yes.  The printed texts we use generally have been standardized wrt
> spelling, regardless of variations in the mss themselves.  This is
> largely for the sake of our convenience.  Sinaiticus, for example,
> abounds in itacisms that substitute I for EI, U for OU and so on.
> Recording each of these in an apparatus would make a work roughly the
> size of my house.  Makes it hard to carry it to class :-)

But a Text with such a "super-apparatus" would fit nicely on a six cd 
set for the home PC.  I seldom do research during class, so portability 
isn't that important to me.

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