The history of our spelling is responsible for such peculiar sentences as: ‘Because there was no time like the present, he thought it was time to present the present.’
Standard spelling was not regarded as important until the 1700s, by which time many irrational spellings had become accepted as ‘normal’.
As Larry Beason, author of Eyes before [...]

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