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Re: Words you just can't spell
« Reply #15 on: March 11, 2014, 04:46:30 PM »
English is weird. A lot of words are spelled in a way that seems wrong just because it was hard to read in traditional calligraphy. Receipt, for example, actually was receit originally. Queen was spelled cwen until English (a germanic language) was pretty much beaten with the latinization stick.
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