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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DonnaML, post: 7852441, member: 110350&quot;]Cool it, please. Are you truly so oblivious that you can&#039;t tell that the sentence ending with an exclamation point was an attempt at humor? Furthermore, your snide comment about having to use Google was pretty offensive, and possibly misogynistic in its assumptions. I&#039;m every bit as aware as you are of spelling variations in English over time. Have you read Malory in the original? I have. And that&#039;s Modern English! Never mind the wide variety of spellings in transliterations from other alphabets.&nbsp; In addition, in college, I reviewed all of the Commons Petitions to the Parliaments of Edward III, which were written in Old French, so again I&#039;m aware of the differences in spelling over time. (However, it&#039;s much closer to Modern French than Middle English of the period is to the Modern English of today.)</p><p><br /></p><p>And all of this is nothing compared to inconsistent spelling in the field of onomastics, as late as the 20th century. Especially when it comes to English renderings of foreign surnames. The name of one branch of my family, which was Polish-Jewish in origin, had more than 20 different recorded spellings in the USA between 1880 and 1920.</p><p><br /></p><p>Nonetheless, Agathodaemon happens to be the more common English spelling in reference books and scholarly articles, wholly apart from RPC&#039;s changing decisions. My comments were made in an effort to try to be accurate (appropriate, I think, in a thread about flyspecking!) and hardly justified your attack. Don&#039;t treat me like some clueless yokel.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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