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Old 10-21-2017, 11:12 AM   #356
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English is an odd language.
This is quite a nice article on how English spalling came to be so inconsistent.

I never knew that we could blame the h in ghost on Flemish typesetters, or the b in debt on 16th century latin-obsesssed spelling reformers.
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