John Dean wrote:
> Daniel Masse wrote:
>
>>Bob Cunningham wrote:
>>
>>>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.)
>>
>>You're right ! I had not thought of checking my old Webster (1953) :
>>it says that "show" may be spelled "shew", specially by the
>>British... Harrap's also mentions it.
>>
>
>
> You'll find it scattered through the King James Version of the Bible. I
> actually worked with a bloke in the 1980s who chose to spell it that
> way. It is considered strange and somewhat affected today.
Right. But still prnounced the same way as "show."
--
Stephen
Lennox Head, Australia
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