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6. dear
The variation of -ea-/-ee- is the operative feature in dear. Of the sixty (+J12) -ea- forms found in copy, B changes twenty-three (+J6) to -ee-. He retains all thirty-seven (+J7) -ee- forms in copy. These statistics point clearly to his preference for deere.
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