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[chee chen <chee_chen2000 AT yahoo.com>]

Dear all,

Need the advice on the above-mentioned issue. Your opinion is much 
appreciated. Thanks.

cheechen



      
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>> Old English orthography was standardised to a large degree before the 
Norman conquest.  

Indeed it was, until the conquest drove OE out of written use and forced 
later generations to come to terms with English as she was spoke. For that 
matter, chancery ME orthography was highly standardized, too, until the 
Great Vowel Shift and the great extension of literacy to amateur writers 
dealt the professionals a double whammy. It will be interesting to see 
whether texting and lolspeak are equally disruptive, and accomplish what 
Noah Webster and Bernard Shaw could not.

Stoney Breyer