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highplainsdem

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32. Interesting video! If you'd like to know how English ended up with those spellings/pronunciations, I posted

Reply to malaise (Original post)

Sun Feb 15, 2026, 03:20 PM

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a link to an OED page explaining it back in 2022

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10181620288#post3

but the OED reorganized its website later, as it explained here

https://www.oed.com/information/about-the-oed/oed-blog/?tl=true

which led me to this page

https://www.oed.com/discover/history-of-english

which finally led me to this

https://www.oed.com/discover/early-modern-english-spelling-grammar-and-pronunciation/

which looks a lot like what I linked to 4 years ago, when the link had been
https://public.oed.com/blog/early-modern-english-pronunciation-and-spelling

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Interesting video! If you'd like to know how English ended up with those spellings/pronunciations, I posted highplainsdem Sunday #32

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