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Transcribe = render the actual pronunciation of.
Yet in Paleography, when one is asked to "transcribe" a document the expectation is that you will render, in modern orthgraphy, the exact way that the document is written, with all abbrev.s, misppelins, contract'ns and peculiarities.
I am almost certain that the next step - rendering it into understandable English - is known as "transliteration."
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If you're rendering a manuscript into modern orthography, how can you preserve all its peculiarities? How do you draw the line between a mis-spelling and a correct one in times when spelling was more -- creative, shall we say?
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The only peculiarities that you may iron out are those of actual letter formation. My apologies for using entirely the wrong word - it ain't orthography and I can't for the life of me think what the right one is (product of advancing years and receding levels in the glass of worthington) - what I mean is the shape of the letters, which has changed quite dramatically over the past 250 years. Indeed at least one letter has disappeared completely - thorn - which looked like a "Y" and stood for the "th" sound. This is, of course the origin of "Ye Olde Tea Shoppe", which really and truly should be pronounced "THe Olde - - ." But that would take away some of the fun for tourists, and it is an easily recognised icon for something that relies on our "heritage" (ugh!!!  ) for its marketing strategy. So lets keep the "wiy" sound for their sakes. I might even get some research funding out of it! 
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Wrote Max Q:
Thanks, of troy. I had long known of "uisge" and its parallel in Scandanavian, but I did not know that aquavit and vodka were
both derived from "uisge" Those drunken Celts and Picts sure got around!
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Not too surprising when one considers that the Russ (from which Russia) were a Nordic tribe which plied the Varangean "highway" of ancient times. They Pict fertile ground for becomming the Celt of the earth, they did.
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> They Pict fertile ground for becomming the Celt of the earth, they did. Gaels of  ter
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