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Background Information In this second letter, written from Dort shortly after letter 1, William Dunlop reverts mainly to Italic, but there are some Secretary Hand forms, such as the long s. The main problems for modern readers are phonetic spelling of some words and the writer's idiosyncracies, such as the use of the letter v, where we would use w, for example in the word vhom at the end of line 3. He also uses -ine in words where we would expect -een or -ene, for example in bine at the end of line 1.
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