'Read' and its past tense are spelled the same. How should they be spelled?

IncogCyberspaceUser@lemmy.world · edit-2 4 days ago

'Read' and its past tense are spelled the same. How should they be spelled?

kersploosh@sh.itjust.works · 7 days ago

This also occurred in the middle of the Great Vowel Shift, a period when spoken English pronunciation was changing significantly.

givesomefucks@lemmy.world · 7 days ago

Yep…

There was also a natural thing happening where vowel pronunciation was changing. So when the typecasters solidified everything, it was already in a state of flux. That’s why pronunciation doesn’t line up with spelling.

kersploosh@sh.itjust.works · 7 days ago

I missed that, my bad.