Re: English: Thou

Robert Hailman wrote:

>  But before the Great Vowel Shift,
> English spelling of vowels was much more regular then it is now, no?
Um, not really.  It was, in fact, wholly irregular, if by regular you mean
"used consistently across society".  English spelling did not gain any sort
of consistency until the late 1600s, early 1700s, or so. Up until that point,
it may have been regular for most people on a strictly personal level, but
even then, there was wide variation -- witness the famous anecdote about
Shakespeare's multiple spellings of his own last name.

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