Episode 149: Breaking Up Is Hard To Do
The History of English Podcast
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A Brief History of the Bible, Part I
The letter from richard pace to henry the eighth in 15 24 is so notable. It's the first evidence we have of someone making that spelling change that would soon become standard. So the word could got its modern l, even though the word was never spelled or pronounced with an l before then. Back in england, henry and his officials were starting to be consumed by the growing interest in martin luther's religious movement on the continent.
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