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Why Does Love Have an O? The Medieval Scribal Trick that Still Sticks
Episode 232
Published 1 day ago
Description
This episode traces the quirky orthographic legacy of love, son, and come—why English keeps an ‘o’ where a modern speaker would expect a ‘u’. We dig into medieval minims, printing presses, dictionary canon, and how a simple visual tweak became a stubborn spelling norm.
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