Wednesday, January 07, 2015

Spelling words.

From the December 2014 Asian edition of the Reader's Digest, page 94.

About why words are spelt the way they are:

[Old English words] were spelled however seemed right and no-one argued the point because most people couldn’t read and those who could all had swords.

- Donyale Harrison, Production Editor, Reader’s Digest.

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