As I recall, he did sometimes add a diaresis.  Still doesn’t fly for me.

Speaking of diacriticals, I’ve noticed that the yukufied archives have apparently just* dropped all diacritically-marked characters.  Coöperate becomes coperate. Fräulein becomes Frulein.  Résumé becomes rsum.

Actually, I haven’t tried playing around with the character encoding; it’s possible these might be recoverable.

Edit: for instance, see here.
Adjusting the character encoding doesn’t help.

* By “just” I mean “simply” not “very recently"--as far as I can tell, this happened simultaneously with the shift to yuku.com.

I’ve just looked at Malcolm Godden’s 1979 edition of AElfric’s Catholic Homilies, 2nd Series (EETS). He combines the word, todaeg, in his edition. There are no notes for this line, so I assume that the word is combined in the manuscript, which is Cambridge MS.Gg.3.28.

kurwamac - 31 March 2008 09:00 AM

I’m surprised that Dr Techie considers ‘no-one’ a rare variant. It’s common in the UK: a quick google showed that it’s used by the Daily Telegraph

In that case the Daily Bellylaugh’s sub-editors were asleep at the wheel - the paper’s style book insists on “no one” (and so does The Times.)

The lead singer of Herman’s Hermit’s claims he was at an airport in leftpondia once and heard someone say over the Tannoy: “Will Peter No One please report to the check-in desk ...”

The Times (of London) was still using “to-day” in 1968, but had changed to “today” by the mid-1970s. Mind, it was still practise on British newspapers until at least the 1950s to use the form “Oxford-st” and so on when giving addresses.