soone
Soone is an archaic English spelling variant of the modern adverb soon. It is chiefly found in Middle English and Early Modern English texts and appears in historical editions and digitized corpora that reproduce period orthography. The form reflects historical spelling practices, where vowels and consonants were written with variable correspondences while pronunciation could be similar to the modern word in many dialects.
In surviving texts, soone is used to convey a temporal sense similar to soon, indicating a short
Today, soone is regarded as obsolete outside of philological study or the transmission of older works. Modern
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