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Re:First languages of N. America traced to two different Sib... by HideousKojima on Thursday April 11, 2024 @10:24PM (#40008853)
I realize there are many, many factors that contribute to English spelling being so weird, but doesn't the Norman invasion account for the lion's share of them?
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Re:First languages of N. America traced to two different Sib... by Electricniko on Thursday April 11, 2024 @11:11PM (#40009055)
I recommend the Youtube channel RobWords for those kinds of explanations:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j07f-cKWRtk

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Re:First languages of N. America traced to two different Sib... by thaumasiotes on Thursday April 11, 2024 @10:42PM (#40008929)
That would be strange, since the same phenomenon - linguistic drift away from ancient spellings - is observed in every language. The reason you see other languages as having spelling that is "less weird" than English is not that English is different from those other languages - it's that the spelling of those other languages is much more recent than the spelling of English is.

The Norman contribution to the split between tough, through, and dough, for example, is zero.

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