There's an 8 hour BBC documentary about the History of English if you're interested http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/story-of-english/ http://topdocumentaryfilms

There's an 8 hour BBC documentary about the History of English if you're interested http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/story-of-english/ http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/story-of-english/ I found it pretty fascinating like spelling use to be all over the place but in the UK the most successful publisher of the King James Bible is basically what became the standard way. In the USA it was a textbook that was used in pretty much all schools for most if its history.