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Thread #170704 Message #4128264
Posted By: leeneia
07-Dec-21 - 12:42 AM
Thread Name: BS: der HErr
Subject: BS: der HErr
Somebody sent my Lutheran church a Lutheran book printed in 1913, a book in German in the old fraktur print. The book was commissioned by the Wisconsin Synod and was published by Northwestern Publishing. I was intrigued to see that whenever the word "Herr" (Lord) appeared, both the H and the E were capitalized.
Is that traditional? Perhaps it was typeset by somebody who made a mistake, but that doesn't seem reasonable.