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A few fun examples of mine on this: debt [1]: Originally spelled 'dette' in Middle English; the <b> was added to make it more Latin-like. isle [2]: Originally
by dorchadas 8y ago
A few fun examples of mine on this:
debt [1]: Originally spelled 'dette' in Middle English; the <b> was added to make it more Latin-like.
isle [2]: Originally spelled 'ile, yle', the <s> was added to make it more Latin-like. Funnily enough, in this case, the <s> was also added to the native English word 'iland', under influence from the new <isle>. [3]
[1] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/debt https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/debt
[2] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/isle#Etymology https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/isle#Etymology
[3]https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/island#English https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/island#English