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No, you've just been noticing spelling mistakes and making generalizations.
by yan 16y ago
No, you've just been noticing spelling mistakes and making generalizations.
- gruseom 16y agoActually, dools is quite correct. Generalizing from spelling mistakes is a classic technique for tracing phonetic shifts in language. That's because misspelling is almost always in favor of something that sounds the same (e.g. their/there/they're). One couldn't ask for a better example than "then/than". When I read the previous sentence out loud, the first "than" sounds closer to "then" than to the second "than".