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Originally Posted by Qaedain
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Language "evolving" because the unwashed masses were too lazy to type a complete word
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Believe it or not, but this is the reason why most changes take place. The massive influx of French words into the English language (mostly spelled and/or pronounced incorrectly, if you look at them strictly) from the Norman invasion did not take place overnight, it took place for many years later as these words dissimulated down from the French-speaking English court into the ear (and later, the mouth) of the common man.