• pingveno@lemmy.ml
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    17
    ·
    1 year ago

    It’s not even that. At the time they split, English wasn’t as standardized. You can see it looking back in the Lewis and Clark expedition journals written by Meriwether Lewis. He doesn’t even have consistency in his own writing, and he was no country bumpkin.