Correct spelling

[sprayermick]

I was looking at an old episode of Heartbeat this morning and in one scene at the railway
station a large sign read "all tickets must be shewn" I thought that the last word should be spelt SHOWN so what is the correct spelling?

[squarebear]

It is an old spelling of SHOWN, as the show is based in the sixties.

[NazNomad]

An archaic, yet perfectly acceptable spelling of 'shown'.

[B00]

is it really?

Corrr, who said whiling away the hours on here is a waste of time? tis an education bein' on here i tell thee!

[factor-fiction]

Yes, shewn is an archaic spelling of shown and in particular I think shew meant to show the validity of something. I don't remember it being around in the 1960s- more like 1900 I would have thought. But words and spellings do change- for example when I was at school the words TODAY and TOMORROW always had a hyphen in and kilogram was KILOGRAMME

[squarebear]

intrestin coz i am at skool and we say 2MORRO and KILLOGRAM. I gess fings doo chanj

[factor-fiction]

No B00- it's 2MOZ isn't it?

[sprayermick]

Well you learn something every day, Thanks people!