Since it _is_ Friday and all...




volume be?



Where the heck do silent letters come from?

As I understand it, before the invention of the printing press, words 
didn't have standard spellings. You just spell the word approximately 
how it sounds. The first printers fixed the spelling of several words. 
(E.g., "put" is spelt with a "U" because that's the letter that could be 
printed most clearly. Nothing to do with phonetics.) This utterly fails 
to explain why words like "knife" have a "K" in them. (!)



What the hell is the actual *point* of LinkedIn anyway?

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