Maybe they devolved, but not much. BTW, the winning word in the national spelling bee was Ursprache, which we are now allowed to use as if it were an English word rather than German.
"Maybe they devolved, but not much. BTW, the winning word in the national spelling bee was Ursprache, which we are now allowed to use as if it were an English word rather than German."
Well, the 19th Century English linguists' equivalent word: "Edenic", is too easy to be a winning word in a spelling bee!