I remember being told this at school, a quick wiki search turns up some stuff here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_orthography#History http://en.wikipedi

I remember being told this at school, a quick wiki search turns up some stuff here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_orthography#History http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_orthography#History "[Printing] introduced further inconsistencies, partly because of the use of typesetters trained abroad, particularly in the Low Countries. For example, the h in ghost was influenced by Dutch."