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  1. …in reply to @PublicDomainRev
    @PublicDomainRev Spelling reformers interest me as preserving the accents of people who didn't have recording devices, rather than for spelling fixes. In this case, "edishon" suggests that the author pronounced -tion to rhyme with "on" rather than with an abbreviated schwa.
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