1362: Future of Spelling Sep 3, 2018

Back in the days of Chaucer or Shakespeare, orthography represented the way that people spoke at the time far better than English writers do now, due to very old conventions that may seem too far along to change. Nevertheless, there is some modification even today. Words like ‘through’ an led ‘though’ are often spelt ‘thru’ and ‘tho’ respectively. Moreover, American spellings still differ someone from British ones to be slightly ore apt. Even words like ‘queensboro’ for the so-named bridge in Queens, NY uses ‘boro’ rather than ‘borough’, with seemingly extra letters.