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The Chancery picked the London dialect, which came from
East Midlands dialects brought to the city by Midlands
workmen, to be the standard English. In addition, they set
out the rules about how certain words should be spelt.
But this effort to bring uniformity to the English language would
have been extremely difficult without the help of one invention.
Can you guess what it is?
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