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mandibeet
716 days ago
The language was largely phonetic, meaning words were spelled the way they sounded. This fact is my fav
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kogus
715 days ago
I love that too. English was spelled phonetically all the way up until the late 1400s, I believe. One fun by-product of purely phonetic spelling is that you could tell the accent of the author by the way they spelled words.
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