I’m inclined to think that the catte will be at ye toppe of ye tre for just as muche tyme as it takes for a tame human to put food at the bottom of the tree. But what would I know?
I like thess waye of spelingye. It is gode fune.
Ah, pre-Websterian spelling: the bane of my existance!
I have a passion for the Tudor/Elizabethan period, and am somewhat of an ameteur scholar. I read a lot of the contemporary letters and documents. The spelling combined with their elaborate handwriting makes it almost a foreign language.
I work in a museum, so I’m constantly transcribing letters and reading diaries/journals/logs from the late 1700s upwards. It’s not until after the Civil War that I see a lot of commonly used standardized spelling. (And don’t get me started about the long F!)
The good thing about it is that most people spelled phonetically, meaning that you can get an idea about pronunciation and accent at the time. Of course, they stuck in an E seemingly wherever it looked good, used I and Y somewhat interchangably, often used I for J, and sometimes doubled up letters for the sheer fun of it, but you can get an idea.
I’m with you. I have a fairly sizeable collection of letters, diaries, what-have-you all written by hand. They date from about the 1950s to the 1600s. Sometimes parsing out the spelling is a headache. And some abbreviations are surreal.
Since the problem demaundes an answer, it surpsieth me that they posteth the wrong answyr.
Yea the net progress proceedeth at a rayte of 5 fote per daye, such that when daye one endeth, catte resteth at 5 fote. Aftyr 4 fortnights and a daye, cat progresseth to 297 fote then recedeth to 285 fote.
Ergo after 4 fortnights plus 2 dayes, catte proceedeth to 285 + 17 fote = 302 fote. Catte canst climbeth on air so answyr must be 4 fortnights plus 2 dayes.
How sayeth other “Dopyrs” ?
Okay, I guess I’ll post in modern English.
So, did anyone else notice that the answer in ye olde textbook was wrong?
The answer should be 58 days right?