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Corpse, Corps, Horse and Worse
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What Happened to English in the 15th Century?
english was in deep flux when caxton arrived with his press. The rules and traditions of written english had more or less just been completely scrambled. There wasn't a book you could get to find out what the proper grammar is. So by the time printing was coming in in the fifteenth century, english had returned, but it was still on shaky ground,. It wasn't very consistent.
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