Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by mandibeet 716 days ago
The language was largely phonetic, meaning words were spelled the way they sounded. This fact is my fav
1 comments

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.