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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 20/08/2022 12:28, Apostolos
Syropoulos via XeTeX wrote:<br>
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My question is if English language speakers
<div>learn in school why they write history and</div>
<div>not istory. The answer seems to be: No.</div>
<div>What you say is completely irrelevant. BTW,</div>
<div>languages evolve and brathings were </div>
<div>introduced for a reason that does not</div>
<div>exist today. So it was to eliminate breathings</div>
<div>from Modern Greek. In ancient Greek the</div>
<div>letter β was pronounced as b but today</div>
<div>it is pronounced as v. So this is yet another</div>
<div>mistake according to your position. For me</div>
<div>it is evolution.</div>
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<p>I have no axe to grind in this intra-Hellenic debate, but may I
ask the two protagonists whether they view the current American
practice of both pronouncing and spelling the phrase "want to" as
"wanna" (as in "I wanna go to the mall" — see Youtube captions,
for countless examples) as evolution or crass ignorance ?</p>
<p>-- <br>
<i>Philip Taylor</i><br>
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