Word: rauley
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...prose. Its author though posterity does not seem to think he knew how to spell his own name was one of the most brilliant figures of his brilliant day. Sir Walter Raleigh, whom his latest biographer calls "the last of the Elizabethans," spelled his name three different ways (Rawleyghe, Rauley, Ralegh) but never signed himself Raleigh. Biographer Thompson lists 68 different spellings used by his contemporaries. The Spaniards, to whom Raleigh was Public Enemy No. 1, called him various guttural equivalents, such as "Guatteral." However they spelled Raleigh's name, Englishmen of his Jay and ever after knew...
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