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Dan Quayle couldn't spell 'potato', Ernest Hemmingway couldn't spell 'definite, Winston Churchill was a bad speller and F. Scott Fitzgerald.
Why is English spelling so weird? We look at the history from the Anglo-Saxon period to the modern day.
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00:00 Famous bad spellers
04:16 Saily
5:43 Ghoti is not fish
7:29 Anglo-Saxon scribes
10:55 French trained scribes
14:59 The handwriting of scribes
17:45 The printing press
20:59 The Great Vowel Shift
23:35 The classical scholars