The History of English Podcast

Episode 89: ‘I Before E’ and All That

52 min • 23 januari 2017

During the Middle English period, scribes developed a variety of spelling innovations to distinguish the sound of the various vowels. Some of those innovations were borrowed from French, and some were native to English.  In this episode, we explore those spelling techniques, many of which still survive in Modern English.

TRANSCRIPT: EPISODE 89

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