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Judith Proctor ([personal profile] watervole) wrote 2019-02-05 01:55 pm (UTC)

Heck I don't even know what a subjunctive is. (though I've just looked it up on Wikipedia, so I now know that I do occasionally use it in English)

Blame Dr Johnson. He liked to use the spelling to match the language of origin, rather than phonetic spelling.

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