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Hasn't that happened already with Latin?
by nazgul17 3y ago
Hasn't that happened already with Latin?
- DiscourseFan 3y agoI think English has a farther reach than Latin, but I guess yeah, at least for Europe.
- kmeisthax 3y agoYes, in fact several English spelling changes were done specifically with the idea of "correcting" words that were thought to be Latin loanwords. e.g. the 'b' in "debt" got stuck there because it made it look more like the Latin "debitum". That word has no Latin etymology nor has it ever has a 'b' sound in it, of course.