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March 9, 2021 at 2:05 pm
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Robin Mitchell
Keymaster
This is mostly due to the invention of the printing press that standardised spellings of words. Although these words have evolved to be pronounced differently, their spelling has remained as it was in Middle English, some 300 years ago.