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― woof, Monday, 25 September 2023 12:42 (nine months ago) link
There's Hubert Selby's use of the slash instead of the apostrophe, though this might not be a "little" signature. Also for some reason I remember William Burroughs' spelling of "naborhood" in more than one spot.
― Halfway there but for you, Wednesday, 27 September 2023 16:22 (eight months ago) link
Love "gaol" and have always enjoyed spelling it that way whenever possible. Quite amusing hearing Elden Ring YouTubers trying to get their mouths around "Ever-GOWEL". They are forgiven. But there's no excuse for calling Blaidd "Blade". He literally tells you it's pronounced "Blythe".
― ...eh you get the gist of it (dog latin), Wednesday, 27 September 2023 16:27 (eight months ago) link
I thought of selby and the slash (along with spellings like krist) but yeah on the bigger side With brophy & shew it’s the fact that she was doing it in the sixties through to the eighties, & doing it consistently in more or less conventional novels, essays & experimental fiction, it’s a minor thing that stands out (she also will always use sc or even scilicet where most will use viz so I kind of assume this is her dying on some pedantic hill)
― Boris Yitsbin (wins), Wednesday, 27 September 2023 16:47 (eight months ago) link
first thing i thought of was salinger’s “goddam” - i don’t usually see it spelled without the silent N outside of his writing
― donna rouge, Wednesday, 27 September 2023 17:04 (eight months ago) link
can't remember who it was, but i remember recently reading another 20th century author how did the "shew" thing as well
IIRC H.P. Lovecraft used shew regularly.
― blatherskite, Wednesday, 27 September 2023 19:49 (eight months ago) link
Shew me the meaning of the word
― Dose of Thunderwords (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 29 September 2023 07:12 (eight months ago) link
There's no business like shewbusiness.
― The First Time Ever I Saw Gervais (Tom D.), Friday, 29 September 2023 07:16 (eight months ago) link
So let the sideshew begin
― Dose of Thunderwords (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 29 September 2023 07:25 (eight months ago) link
H.P. Lovecraft and the word eldritch. As Mark E Smith and Andrew from the Sisters picked up on.
Cormac McCarthy and the word and. Sentence beginner and otherwise.
― Stevo, Friday, 29 September 2023 08:15 (eight months ago) link