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33: Why spelling is hard — but also hard to change

Lingthusiasm - A podcast that's enthusiastic about linguistics

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How Did the Printing Presses Come In?

The printing press came in just before the big vowel shift kind of happened and became standardized. And so it's just because the printing presses were brought to london and not york, that southern english is more strongly codified. One of my favorite examples of this is also that the printing presses started writing down english at the point at which we still pronounced the k before n that as become silent now.

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