Ralph Shumaker wrote:
I consider "tho" to be an improvement over "though". But I also see
it as something in common enough use to be not too awfully far from
adoption. I think I might even intermix the two just to show that
it's *not* ignorance compelling me to do it, *nor* laziness, but
rather a deliberate choice.
Ah, but remember that "though" was likely pronounced as it is written,
the pronunciation having changed since Chaucer's time while the spelling
has remained the same. Likewise, "two" was likely pronounced as "duo" or
"dvo", the 'k' in "knight" wasn't silent, and so on. Written language is
far more conservative than spoken language. If the written forms changed
as rapidly as their spoken counterparts, we wouldn't be able to read
documents older than a couple of centuries.
The spelling only looks funny because we don't use the funny
pronunciation of earlier times.
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