Library of Formatting Examples:Italics/50A

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The plural number, and the genitive singular, seem to have been
originally formed by adding <i>er</i> to the nominative singular, as <i>you, you-er,
your</i>; <i>they, they-er, their</i>; <i>we, we-er, our</i>. This termination was afterwards
changed into <i>en</i>, and then into <i>es</i> or <i>s</i>. Thus we have still in provincial
usage, though now almost entirely obsolete, <i>childer</i> for the plural
of <i>child</i>, and the double plural in <i>child-er-en, children</i>, with the double
genitive in <i>west-er-en, western</i>.

Lists

These are unusual inline lists: the author seems to be emphasizing groups of variants, rather than individual words, so we enclosed each group, rather than each word, in a single set of italics tags. The group delimiters are semi-colons, not commas.

When you see unusual situations, it's always a good idea to ASK about them in the Project Discussion, and perhaps to leave a [** note].