It’s Part 2 of our mega-episode on spelling! This time, we get into some of the notorious mismatches between English spelling and modern English pronunciation. Explaining them takes us all the way back to Phoenician — several times — but maybe, just maybe, some bits of this odd language will make more sense to you when we’re done!<a href="https://www.diffordsguide.com/cocktails/recipe/11753/xyz#ingredients ">The XYZ Cocktail</a><a href="https://youtu.be/VF5MGLRlXVw">Our video on “Spelling”</a><a href="http://www.historyofenglishspelling.info">Christopher Upward & George Davidson, The History of English Spelling (2001)</a>David Sacks, Letter Perfect (2003)<a href="https://historyofenglishpodcast.com/audiobooks/">Kevin Stroud, The History of the Alphabet (audiobook)</a><a href="https://youtu.be/PdO3IP0Pro8">NativLang “Thoth’s Pill - an Animated History of Writing”</a><a href="/episode-114a-transcript">Transcript of this episode</a><a href="https://youtu.be/OQ_zYTGn1kA">This episode on YouTube</a><a href="https://www.patreon.com/TheEndlessKnot">Our Patreon page</a><a href="https://endlessknot.redbubble.com/">Redbubble store</a>This podcast is licensed under a&nbsp;<a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/">Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License</a>﻿<a href="http://feeds.podtrac.com/nuN4kzwmvyye">The Endless Knot RSS</a>

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