This, then, below, is the first in my Dissertation Station posts. It's not new writing; it's excerpted from my dissertation proposal. But I haven't published this anywhere before now.
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The real question here is actually, "Why are these words spelled the way they are?"
What I have learned from these historians is that witnessing matters. Getting the facts right matters, and getting names right matters. But you know what doesn't always matter? Spelling.
I’m probably gonna cuss and stuff, and call out lies as lies, and thieves as thieves, as I’ve always done. There are no sacred cows here.