The History of English Podcast

Episode 153: Zombie Letters

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1:11:08 | Oct 30th, 2021

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In early Modern English, writers and printers began to revise the spelling of many English words to reflect their etymological origins. Old letters were revived from the dead to reflect sounds that ha...Show More



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hsfargis recommended:Nov 2nd, 2021

This was just so good! I've always wondered about the spellings of many of the words discussed here and learning of their journeys from Roman and Greek to French and English and sometimes back and forth again was just fascinating.

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