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Corpse, Corps, Horse and Worse
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The Flemish Style Spelling of Old English
The process of ike wy printing itself introduced variations in spelling. Some printers that caxon brought with him were using sort of flemish style spellings. So they'd see a word like ghost, which would, in old english, be something like g a s t gust. Well, they spell it g h e e s t. That's the flemish way. And so this kind of accidental error takes on own influence and then spreads to some other part of the language,. but not everywhere.
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