It's hard to tell but induced miscarriages (abortion) seem to have been a cottage industry back then! And then the language we use changes and non-specialists lose sight of what the words on paper *really* meant. So there's a lot about the pre-industrial world that is obscured.

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Send me money and I will write STOCK on a piece of paper.

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Basically it's weird accounting shit that kind of disappears in the wash at some point.

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My advice would be to haggle for a couple of extra weeks turn-around time on copy edits (but don't tell them why!) then try to death-march the job in LibreOffice. That way *if* it goes sideways (it shouldn't) you'll still have time to beat the deadline. Worked for me …

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