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by on May 26, 2021

I will confess that back in the day when typed on the family machine, I used a capital “I” for the number 1. It never occurred to me to use the lowercase “l“. Fortunately, the exclamation point was not an issue!

The Stenographer (Philadelphia), July 1899 –

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