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Spellings Are Made By People. Dictionaries - Eventually - Reflect Popular Choices.

The Internet Is An Amazing Medium For Languages.

English Has Been This Vacuum Cleaner Of A Language, Because Of Its History Meeting Up With The Romans And Then The Danes, The Vikings And Then The French And Then The Renaissance With All The Latin And Greek And Hebrew In The Background.

The Story Of English Spelling Is The Story Of Thousands Of People - Some Well-known, Most Totally Unknown - Who Left A Permanent Linguistic Fingerprint On Our Orthography.

You Don't Talk To A Linguist Without Having What You Say Taken Down And Used In Evidence Against You At Some Point In Time.