Felis Catus is your taxonomic nomenclature…
An endothermic quadruped, carnivorous by nature
That is the most wrongest way to spell that cat’s name but it somehow adds up to feel right. I’ll need to ponder this for a time.
😄 I’m afraid the 18th century didn’t really grasp the idea of consistent spelling, and reading primary sources from that time is enough to give anyone a headache!
Nah. It ties back to the idea that an adult’s handwriting is unique. If everything else matches, but every word is spelled correctly you might have a forgery on your hands, or they could be writing under duress.
Didn’t help that all of the “high-society”/“high-minded” types were as obsessed with riddles and codes as the most extreme would-be sleuths you’ll meet today … or maybe the generation of average net denizen has lost out on something.
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