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Corpse, Corps, Horse and Worse

99% Invisible

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What the Hell English?

Erica explores the origins of s fonetic paradoxes. Some of the reasons for the confusion are as counter intuitive as the words themselves. The introduction of the printing press to england in the fifteenth century had an opposite effect on spelling.

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