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Mediaeval Yorkshirefolk mutilated, burned t'dead to prevent reanimation

Nick Ryan Silver badge

Re: Help a foreigner, please

I believe that Mediaeval is more correctly represented as Mediæval however due to various technical limitations in technology (and Americans, who are generally poor at spelling) the æ ligature(?) was dropped in favour of the separate letters. Not sure when/why it morphed into Medieval as well (probably the same buggers who keep forgetting the letter u and replacing the letter s with the letter z).

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