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From: rharmsen@knoware.nl (Ruud Harmsen)
Subject: Re: vowel shift in Early English and German
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In article <jxfdch@foxearth.demon.co.uk> ross@foxearth.demon.co.uk (Ross Burgess) writes:
>From: ross@foxearth.demon.co.uk (Ross Burgess)
>Subject: Re: vowel shift in Early English and German
>Date: Wed, 28 Dec 1994 15:55:48 +0000

>And can anyone suggest why English spelling is more 
>conservative than German in this respect?
Perhaps because it was formed from so many sources (Anglo-Saxon, Old-Norse, 
French, Latin) so there was a inconsistent spelling very early, and there was 
much more inconsistency than in many other languages?
