Spellings Are Made By People. Dictionaries -

English Has Been This Vacuum Cleaner Of A Language, Because Of Its History Meeting Up With The Romans And Then The Danes, The Vikings And Then The French And Then The Renaissance With All The Latin And Greek And Hebrew In The Background.

Spellings Are Made By People. Dictionaries - Eventually - Reflect Popular Choices.

You Don't Talk To A Linguist Without Having What You Say Taken Down And Used In Evidence Against You At Some Point In Time.

Anyone Interested In Language Ends Up Writing About The Sociological Issues Around It.

Language Changes And Moves In A Different Direction Evolving All The Time. Where A Lot Of People See Deterioration, I See Expressive Development