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Then there are also the lovely instances of deliberate misspellings / insertion of letters into words that never had them in English. Eg. receipt, which has th
by cenamus 10mo ago
Then there are also the lovely instances of deliberate misspellings / insertion of letters into words that never had them in English.
Eg. receipt, which has the p only in Latin, but had long lost it by the time Old French brought it to Britain.
- kibwen 10mo agoDon't get me started on colour, caused by the English aristocracy distorting the Latin/Old French color just to look fancy.