The in-built speech-to-text accessibility function on my Mac has gotten much worse over the past year. It used to do a passable job. Now it's gibberish. #enshittification
Laura Estill
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Shakespeare + Early Modern English Lit. Manuscripts. Book History. Bibliography. DH. Canada Research Chair in Digital Humanities & English Professor at StFX University
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Chapter 12
Frames without Pictures
Shirley's Prologues and Epilogues in Poems &c (1646)
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Text on the site: The Proverbs and Epigrams of John Heywood (A. D. 1562), Part 1562
John Heywood
BiblioBazaar, 2008 - History -236 Pages
This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to reproduce this title even though it may possibly have occasional imperfections such as missing and blurred pages, missing text, poor pictures, markings, dark backgrounds and other reproduction issues beyond our control. Because this work is cuturally important, we [link: More>>]
About the author (2008)
JOHN HEYWOOD, is a Professional Fellow Emeritus of Trinity College Dublin. He has an MSc in Engineering Education, and a doctorate from the University of Dublin. He was founding editor of the International Journal of Technology and Design Education. He has published widely and won several awards for his writings in the areas of engineering, science, and technology. Since 1973 he has been a regular contributor to the ASEE/IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:omcsjedjhwgwwylqwycmgkcj/bafkreidz4wz5qgambit7nvnkb3vvilqz7cn3sd66ynpr7i2ox3wdiqq4s4)
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largest word: Shakespeare
half the size of that: David Beckham
half the size of that: Beatles, Adele, JK Rowling
smaller yet: Mr Bean
smaller yet: Elton John, Chaplin
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