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Corpse, Corps, Horse and Worse

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i was curious about isam that p s and psychology, or m n and pneumonic. Were those always spelled that way, or were those added later to fancify things? Words like psychology and pneumonic brought in as is much later. So those are people borrowing them directly from greek, translated into latin and putting them into english. Some of them that we spell with these classical spellings in the beginning, were spelled normally. But later, during the sprucing up phase of the language, we made the connection back to their fancyor roots,. You know, elevating flem and diarrhoea, putting the g in there and putting all these ors in there

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