Category talk:Misplaced apostrophes in English

New-England judg’d

It may soon escalate to an edit war again the sysop Tuvalkin, so I start a talk page in advance. Even assuming “call’d” and “judg’d” are totally inappropriate nowadays, it wasn’t so in 1703. One may not impose anachronistic ideas about spelling or grammar to century-old documents, otherwise all categories under Linguistic mistakes would became flooded by ancient writings.

For the description=: it contains “call'd” and archaically hyphenated “New-England” that Tuvalkin doesn’t contest, but for a strange reason he attacked “judg’d”. In one chunk of text we should either apply modern orthography consistently, or preserve the original one. It would be better to have both versions accessible by the reader. Incnis Mrsi (talk) 15:58, 30 December 2017 (UTC)