The Latin alphabet had been adapted to English by Christian Monks in the 6th century. The Norman arrival, with their French influence, brought more changes in pronunciation and sounds, along with suffixes, spelling practices, exceptions and analogies. In the 15th century, The Great Vowel Shift occurred and altered the character of […]
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Our Americanized version of English is a conglomeration of words borrowed from different foreign languages. In fact, as John McWorter says in his book, The Power of Babel, the variety of the world’s languages is miraculous because “it is the product of a process of six thousand imperceptibly gradual transformations […]