1599: wealth and health May 1, 2019

The words 'wealth' and 'health' rhyme, which makes sense even just looking at the spelling, but this was less of a guarantee than it might appear now. 'Health' comes from Old English in which the vowel was 'ǣ'—like the vowel in 'pal'—but the words 'heal' also comes from this, and 'hail' is related, so these vowels have all changed independently over time. Moreover, 'wealth' comes from either 'well' or 'weal', which has a closer meaning but doesn't sound as similar. Either way, the spelling of 'wealth' and not 'wellth' was done so not in spite of but because following the pattern of the spelling for 'health'. Read about the Word Theory concerning this word in practice here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/26458445