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Written English has evolved（使）逐步發展；（使）逐步演變 mostly in ways unrelated無關聯 to the changes in the spoken language, thanks in part某種程度上 to shenanigans惡作劇；把戲、詐欺 and human error.

The first English printing press印刷機, in the 15th century, was operated（使）運行；運作 by Belgians比利時的；比利時人的 who didn't know the language and made numerous spelling errors (such as "busy" in place of代替 "bisy").

And because they were paid付費的；支付薪金；受僱用的 by the line, they sometimes padded有填充物的，有襯墊 words with extra letters字母; "frend," for example, beca...

Written English has evolved（使）逐步發展；（使）逐步演變 mostly in ways unrelated無關聯 to the changes in the spoken language, thanks in part某種程度上 to shenanigans惡作劇；把戲、詐欺 and human error.

The first English printing press印刷機, in the 15th century, was operated（使）運行；運作 by Belgians比利時的；比利時人的 who didn't know the language and made numerous spelling errors (such as "busy" in place of代替 "bisy").

And because they were paid付費的；支付薪金；受僱用的 by the line, they sometimes padded有填充物的，有襯墊 words with extra letters字母; "frend," for example, became "friend."

In the next century, other non-English speakers in continental洲的；大陸的；（常大寫）歐洲大陸 Europe printed the first English Bibles基督教《聖經》, introducing yet more errors.

Worse, those Bibles基督教《聖經》were then copied, and the writing became increasingly corrupted腐敗的, 貪贓舞弊 with each subsequent隨後的，接著 rendition（對歌曲，音樂或詩歌的）詮釋.

English spelling became a chaotic混沌的；一片混乱 mess, and successful attempts to simplify the spelling after that were offset抵消；彌補 by events that made the language harder to learn, such as the inclusion包藏；包容 of many alternate輪流，交替 spellings in Samuel Johnson's influential English dictionary.

Unlike many other languages, English spelling was never reformed to eliminate排除；消除 the incongruities不協調；不合適.

In a sense某種意義上說, English speakers now talk in one language but write a different one.