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Written by bodhidave on 2025-01-18 at 18:10

Not finding it now, but saw a post earlier with the suggestion that the English word "sneeze" derives from a misreading of the Old English "fnesen" — since an initial or medial "s" came for a time to be written like this: ʃ

I'm reminded of that as I'm seeing the "long s" in this droll passage from Voltaire, regarding Socrates' daimon.

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