Thanks for the extra information. I hadn't heard what the progress of it had been since shortly after its initial implementation. As you rightly say, things like this don't really affect the readability of a language, any more than a modern English reader has more than a momentary surprise at seeing spellings like "chuse" and "shew" (rather than "choose" and "show") in Jane Austen's novels that were published 200 years ago.
Last edited by HarryT; 12-17-2012 at 04:38 AM.
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