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Re: Who can decipher 18th century script?
« Reply #15 on: February 24, 2014, 08:48:08 AM »
 :) ;D :)
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Re: Who can decipher 18th century script?
« Reply #16 on: February 24, 2014, 06:12:40 PM »
Quote from: Anthony Darby on February 24, 2014, 08:40:14 AM
Have you thought of asking a doctor?
Actually I feel quite well today... :P
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Re: Who can decipher 18th century script?
« Reply #17 on: February 25, 2014, 05:57:25 PM »
It was presented as a puzzle, not as a scientific problem.
Nothing reasonable resulted.
« Last Edit: February 25, 2014, 05:59:00 PM by Great Moravian »
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Re: Who can decipher 18th century script?
« Reply #18 on: February 26, 2014, 12:50:51 PM »
It cannot be taken seriously. It is fun. But fantasy works.
Lillimassy = Lilliputian massy = small mercy
Minimercy would be nowadays equivalent.
I found massy = mercy in my English-Czech dictionary
but not in other dictionaries. It might be nonsense.
Multimassy is possible reading too.
oys - bis -
oys = young man in one-year-service   bis = twice
« Last Edit: February 26, 2014, 05:53:50 PM by Great Moravian »
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Re: Who can decipher 18th century script?
« Reply #19 on: February 26, 2014, 09:42:49 PM »
Interesting ideas!
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Re: Who can decipher 18th century script?
« Reply #20 on: February 27, 2014, 10:39:12 AM »
Another possible reading of the second expression is
dys - bis -
dys = daily service; duty service; duty soldier
Ask Ministry of Defence whether abbreviations
OYS or DyS were used in the army and which
was the meaning.
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Re: Who can decipher 18th century script?
« Reply #21 on: April 25, 2014, 09:16:35 AM »
Dear Anne,
I wonder if you managed to decipher the words correctly.
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Re: Who can decipher 18th century script?
« Reply #22 on: May 15, 2014, 07:45:08 AM »
This is what my aunt decided:
One of the words was OYEZ – as in town crier ringing his bell and calling out OYEZ to catch folks attention
Couldn’t decide whether it was Brandy Chaser or Shearer – so just made it Brandy
Left Millimass in the text – hopefully some smarty pants will make contact and tell me what it is!
Thanks for everyone's help!
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