[PW] Anachronisms

[Simon Cauchi]

On 15/01/2008, at 9:32 AM, Donna Halper wrote:

> Interestingly, I find that the spelling used by certain newspapers of
> the late 1800s and early 1900s was "clew".

Not just the newspapers. That spelling is also found in Whitman. See 
"Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking", line 158:

O give me the clew! (it lurks in the night here somewhere)

Simon Cauchi
<simon.cauchi at xtra.co.nz>