On another List was a message that used the word " mean't " - "meant" with an apostrophe before the "t". It occurs to me that there may have been a stage in the history of written English when words such as "meant", "dreamt", "learnt" etc might have been written with apostrophes, since the -t was a corruption of -ed. Has anybody encountered the phenomenon in old Wills? (For all I know, the classical plays and poems are full of examples, but I am willing to look ignorant, just this once!) Gordon Barlow