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Spelling style with an i would simply create another homonym. What purpose would be served?
by kwhitefoot 5y ago
Spelling style with an i would simply create another homonym. What purpose would be served?
- ggm 5y agoThere are english literature works from before the 19th century which use stile in this meaning, not just to refer to a gate through a fence. "Stile Antico" from the Italian (?) for a form of music, but I think it was also used during a time spelling was more fluid. the NGRAM page doesn't really help but it is interesting. Probably the changes in animal husbandry, and land enclosure account for some of this and have nothing to do with spelling https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=stile%2C+style&year_start=1600&year_end=1900&corpus=26&smoothing=3 https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=stile%2C+style...