In his 1943 book The Life of Johnny Reb, Emory University historian Bell Wiley collects misspellings found in the letters of Confederate soldiers. Can you decipher these words?
- agetent
- bregad
- cerce
- crawsed
- furteege
- orpital
- perperce
- porchun
- regislatury
- ridgement
Bonus: What does A brim ham lillkern mean?
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- adjutant
- brigade
- scarce
- crossed
- fatigue
- hospital
- purpose
- portion
- legislature
- regiment
Bonus: Abraham Lincoln.
Also: accitment for excitement, ceep for keep, coummling for Cumberland, dyereaer for diarrhea, experdission for expedition, eyedear for idea, forchin for fortune, horspitibel for hospitable, mungunry for Montgomery, pestearred for pestered, physitian for physician, rumatis for rheumatism, saft for safe, sity for city, snode for snowed, tords for towards, unbenoing for unbeknown, and wonst for once.
Wiley writes, “The ordinary Reb was nearly always subject to greater defeat by a word like Chattanooga than by the Yankees.”
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