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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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{ 2 comments… add one }
  • Richard P May 26, 2021, 11:46 am

    The Victorian snark is palpable.

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  • Bill M May 26, 2021, 1:21 pm

    Ah, the days of manually reversed ribbons.

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