Before the printing press, scribes were contracted to handwrite items. They were paid on a per-inch basis, and spelling wasn't standardized yet, so apparently they made words longer so they could have increased pay. This is part of the reason why words like "friend" aren't spelled "frend" anymore, or why some words like "bell" and "shall" have double Ls, and head and season have "ea" instead of just "e".

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