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Across these examples, “t” functions in strikingly varied ways. In Old English passages from Beowulf, it appears within words such as “tô strang” to signify “too mighty” [1], while in geographical contexts—“Sētia, t. of Latium (Sezza)”—it abbreviates “town” [2]. Sometimes it emerges as an enigmatic, truncated styling, as in “t—odd as it may seem” [3], or simply as an initial for a name, for example “T. Brown” [4]. Whether acting as a morphological marker, an abbreviation, or part of a typographical flourish, “t” in these works illustrates the remarkably flexible role a single letter can play in literature.
  1. adv., too : tô strang ( too mighty ), 133 ; tô fäst, 137 ; tô swýð, 191 ; so, 789 , 970 , 1337 , 1743 , 1749 , etc.
    — from I. Beówulf: an Anglo-Saxon poem. II. The fight at Finnsburh: a fragment.
  2. Sētia, t. of Latium ( Sezza ), i. 344 , 347 , 352 . ——, wine of, i. 347 .
    — from The Geography of Strabo, Volume 3 (of 3) by Strabo
  3. t—odd as it may seem—it did not occur to me at the moment to take off my clothes as I should have done.
    — from The Invisible Man: A Grotesque Romance by H. G. Wells
  4. Rev. T. Whittle, B. Green, T. Brown, J. Tudson, J. Ent, Isabel Tooster, and Joan Lashford.
    — from Fox's Book of Martyrs by John Foxe

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