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Originally Posted by pdurrant
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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Not only is it inconsistent but even the same words can be spelled differently depending on the country. Here we color with two other people and go to the theater too. You colour and go to the theatre.