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The language was largely phonetic, meaning words were spelled the way they sounded. This fact is my fav
by mandibeet 2y ago
The language was largely phonetic, meaning words were spelled the way they sounded. This fact is my fav
- kogus 2y agoI 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.