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Extremely Late Latin

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As anyone who has looked at original documents dating to 600‒1000 CE can attest, spelling mistakes proliferated in later Latin. They may appear random at first glance, but they turn out to be largely systematic and reflective of contemporary pronunciation in the same way that modern spelling mistakes such as 'rite' and 'definate' (for right and definite) hint at English pronunciation habits.

Over a millennium later, a scholar by the name of Roger Wright woke up in an...

Extremely Late Latin

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