Bill Bryson Quote
Sometimes the pronunciation changed, as between bath and bathe and as with the s in house becoming a z in houses. And sometimes, to the eternal confusion of non-English speakers, these things happened all together, so that we have not only the spelling doublet life/lives but also the pronunciation doublet līves and lĭves as in a cat with nine lives lives next door.
Bill Bryson
Sometimes the pronunciation changed, as between bath and bathe and as with the s in house becoming a z in houses. And sometimes, to the eternal confusion of non-English speakers, these things happened all together, so that we have not only the spelling doublet life/lives but also the pronunciation doublet līves and lĭves as in a cat with nine lives lives next door.