[XeTeX] Off topic (interesting) question

[George N. White III]

On Sat, Aug 20, 2022 at 6:23 AM Apostolos Syropoulos via XeTeX <
xetex at tug.org> wrote:

>
> Hi everybody,
>
> Many readers of this mailing list are
> native English language speakers and
> the following question is for them.
>
> Someone claimed that English people (I say
> more generally English language speakers)
>  learn at school why you write history and
> not istory. Since I do not know I'd this holds, I
> am asking: Is this true? Does someone who
> has graduated from high-school know the
> reason why this happens?
>

American high-school I experienced was sadly
lacking in the reasons behind the “facts” being
crammed into young minds.

-- 
George N. White III
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