Grant, 

My favorite phoneticism from an 18th-century James City County VA probate
inventory:  flebitenag.

M.

Quoting Grant Q <[log in to unmask]>:

> I'm working from a transcribed copy--done by someone
> else, so I can't comment on how it appears on the
> original document, but it seems to me that it would be
> awfully easy when doing a transcription to
> mis-interpret a "T" as an "H" (STillyard to SHillard).
> Especially if the text was faded, ink was worn, the
> original author had bad handwriting, or it may have
> just been phonetically written.  That seems to be the
> case with the Periauger. You can't get much more
> phonetic than "petty auger", especially when spoken
> with an 18th century Virginia drawl. 
> 
> -Grant




Mary C. Beaudry, PhD, RPA, FSA
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