The Modern Forgery Hypothesis

[eggyk]

Several examples of "Octebre" exist, they are all modern. Here is an example from a 1898 French letter:



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Here's another one from 1810:



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There's even a Spanish example:

I'm sorry, but I have to push back on the first 2 examples here. An obscure spelling mistake halfway through a huge book should not count for these purposes imo. Firstly, because of the missing macron, and secondly because noone would ever find these without an OCR scan. This is how that octebre looks on those pages; the rest of the pages contain not a single other example (but do contain many octobres).

Context is important here. This is page 413 of 620, most of which are pages full of dates.