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cenamusyesterday at 10:17 AM1 replyview on HN

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.


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kibwenyesterday at 3:26 PM

Don't get me started on colour, caused by the English aristocracy distorting the Latin/Old French color just to look fancy.