2106: morale Sep 20, 2020

English spelling is known for being inconsistent. Some of this has to do with standardizing before a major sound-shift but also that much of the vocabulary was borrowed. That said, in at least a few cases, the words were respelled, such as with 'morale'; it actually originated in French with 'moral' and so was modified as to disambiguate the meanings, but that being said, it was only adopted into English by way of misunderstanding. French now too distinguished between 'le moral' as in the temperment of courage (in the masculine) and 'la morale' as in 'morality' (in the feminine).

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