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RT Colin Gorrie (@colingorrie)Written English has barely changed in 300 years. If you can read Harry Potter, you can read Robinson Crusoe (1719).The Spelling of our Tongue was in the main ſettled ere the eighteenth Century, & the Grammar has ſuffer'd but little Alteration ſince. Yet before this happy Settlement, things were exceeding ſtrange.In Shakeſpeares dayes, ſpelling was much more variable, & you ſhall finde notable differences in the grammar: "thou" could bee intimate or inſulting, depending vpon who ...