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		mandibeet on June 26, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Benjamin Thorpe translated almost all Old English ... The language was largely phonetic, meaning words were spelled the way they sounded. This fact is my fav

kogus on June 27, 2024 [–]

I love that too. English was spelled phonetically all the way up until the late 1400s, I believe. One fun by-product of purely phonetic spelling is that you could tell the accent of the author by the way they spelled words.

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