| From: | Garth Wallace <gwalla@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, November 17, 2004, 0:51 |
Ray Brown wrote:> > I also discovered yesterday that the earliest known attempt at English > spelling reform was by a monk called Ormm (or Ormmin) in about 1200 CE. > But the vast majority of reform proposals seem to belong to the past three > centuries. I wonder how many there are. More than 1000?Could you contribute something on him to Wikipedia? Perhaps in the spelling reform article? <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spelling_reform>
| Joe <joe@...> |