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Too bad “hean” was a misspelling. A hitherto unknown mythical bird would have been even more interesting. Or was it a species that became extinct?



Standard spelling was only being proposed around this time, so it's not a misspelling.


The article says it is a misspelling.


The fact that misspelling doesn't have 3 s's is one of the great tragedies of English orthography.

> missspelling


I was suprised to see that claimed as a misspelling. The lettering was very neat, nearly perfect otherwise, so with that evident attention to detail I thought a misspelling was unlikely. I assumed it was just an older variation of the spelling.




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