228: born versus borne Jul 24, 2015

Most words are the retain spelling for voices, with the addition of suffixes. The words 'born' and 'borne', and except from this, however, and are spelled differently, because they are both participles. 'Born', the more common of the two, is used for passive statements e.g. "he was born twenty years ago" where as 'borne' is the participle of 'to bear', and is active, "the mother has borne a daughter". The distinction was only made at the end of the 18th century.