On Mon, 5 Dec 2005 18:29:34 +0100, "Daniel Masse"
<pas_de_spam_masse.dan@free.fr> said:
> I am presently reading a very old book (published by John Murray in 1892)
> and I find that the verb "show" is replaced by "shew" in every single
> occurrence. I doubt this could be a typographical error, but I have never
> seen this spelling before (but I am French, and I probably don't know it
> all...).
> Has anybody ever encountered that spelling ?
I haven't, but both British and American unabridged
dictionaries say that it's an obsolete or archaic variant of
"show".
"Shew" appeared as a pronunciation spelling of the way Ed
Sullivan supposedly said "show". (Ed Sullivan was the
master of ceremonies of a popular television show forty or
fifty years ago.)
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