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Episode 158: Planting Seeds

The History of English Podcast

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The History of English Spelling

Many scholars were increasingly concerned about the state of English spelling at the time. Spellings had been largely phonetic for many centuries, but it had gradually become more and more fixed. By the current point in our story in the mid-1500s, spellings resembled those that we used today.

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