Talk:wring

@Sgconlaw a lot of your quotes have the <vv> digraph, but in the page image it seems like a regular W. Is there a reason for this? Ioaxxere (talk) 05:24, 6 June 2023 (UTC)Reply

@Ioaxxere: it's sometimes hard to tell, but most works before 1800 appear to use the digraph. — Sgconlaw (talk) 21:15, 7 June 2023 (UTC)Reply

@Vorziblix: see the discussion above. It's sometimes hard to tell, but most works before 1800 appear to use the digraph (this article makes an interesting read, though it only studied 17th century works), so I decided to use the digraph for works between 1500 and 1799. — Sgconlaw (talk) 22:35, 30 October 2024 (UTC)Reply

@Sgconlaw: Hmm, I see. I wonder if that indeed holds true in general — in my experience reading old texts, the long s died out around 1800, but vv for w seems to have died out much earlier, at least in English books (the article you linked studied Dutch books specifically). I suspect that for English texts 1600 or so might be a more accurate cutoff date than 1800, based on the preponderance of the quotes I’ve checked. It would be good to see more studies on the subject. — Vorziblix (talk · contribs) 00:54, 31 October 2024 (UTC)Reply