Episode 156: Beggars, Cheats and Thieves
The History of English Podcast
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The Protestant Printer, John Day
Some printers used their presses to promote either the protestant or catholic cause. With elizabeth as queen, they were back in good favor again. John day received a valuable patent to print a text by a physician and astrologer named william cunningham. In certain places where a sound was usually left silent, in a word, he marked the silent letter with an apostrophe.
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