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Cthulhu_
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All Kindles can now be jailbroken
I did some googling and it turns out "gaol" was indeed the more popular spelling, but only up until 1960 when "jail" took over; numbers:
https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=gaol%2Cjail&ye...
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