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« on: May 25, 2023, 11:35:37 AM »
Quote from: emailking on May 25, 2023, 10:40:16 AM
I assume these came about from people inadvertently misspelling them repeatedly, but then the misspellings stuck.
Standardized spelling in English only came about very gradually and haphazardly. So it's difficult to say whether a certain spelling was a "misspelling" or just a non-traditional or haphazard spelling before roughly the early/mid-19th century.

But to the OP, no.
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