Then there are also the lovely instances of deliberate misspellings / insertion of letters into words that never had them in English.
Eg. receipt, which has the p only in Latin, but had long lost it by the time Old French brought it to Britain.
Don't get me started on colour, caused by the English aristocracy distorting the Latin/Old French color just to look fancy.
Don't get me started on colour, caused by the English aristocracy distorting the Latin/Old French color just to look fancy.