Talk:London garrotting panics

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Hi, thanks for this interesting article - it's like the press has always had misleading click bait! There is a mixture of spellings of garot- and garrot- which I don't think is intentional. (I can see the refs have both.) I thought about changing them to the double -R spelling (per Turner et al p96 which talks of the "Garrotters Act") but that would mean moving the article and changing the hook, so I'm leaving it with you:) PS I hope the capstan dab guess is correct. Thanks, JennyOz (talk) 07:48, 20 September 2020 (UTC)
 * Hi JennyOz, thanks for your work on this article (I think your link for capstan was the best choice). Looking at Google Ngrams "garotting" was the most popular form from the panic until the 1880s when "garrotting" became preferred. I think I'll switch it to the more modern useage  now it's off the main page.  Cheers - Dumelow (talk) 06:23, 21 September 2020 (UTC)


 * Thanks - all good. Congrats on the pageviews! JennyOz (talk) 08:18, 21 September 2020 (UTC)