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After the Norman conquest, some Old English symbols were resembled with symbols that closely resembled Latin symbols, because Old English was no longer the official language, being replaced by French, and therefore was not written down.
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As the way we pronounce words changed so did their spelling, as people were inclined to spell words the way it was spelt.
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Silent e's were continued in the spelling system but repurposed as a tool to signal the value of the long vowels changed in the Great Vowel Shift (e.g. in mate, name, while etc.).
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the tremendous variety of spellings in written English had shaken down into a far smaller set of variants, and a great part of the outlines of the modern orthography was in place.
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The most influential and most widespread religous document of the age. Most spelling techniques were adopted by translators and wrtiers.
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Oxford English Dictionary first standardized spelling and gave meaning to a lot of the words (10,000) adding some consistency to English
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He added systematic alterations to this dictionary using -ize instead of -ise for verbs derived from Greek verbs, eliminating u in the suffix -our.
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This ushered in a new era of English and developed trends and restrictions in spelling.
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After defeating the vikings who threatened the english way of life and its, language, Alfred the Great encouraged English Literacy and saved the English language from extinction.