Okay, welcome back.

My name is Jamie, and this is the British History Podcast, and I know I've been gone

for a few days.

I'm sorry about that.

Life intervened.

If you're on Facebook or Twitter, you probably know exactly what happened.

And if you're not, it's probably a mystery to you, so you might want to fix that.

Okay, well let's get right to it, because I'm kind of excited to talk about this.

We've got a lot of people to cover, and not a lot of time to do it in.

So as you might have gathered from the title, we're going to be talking about Chalin today.

Now from all this discussion of various Anglo-Saxon leaders, you might have noticed that while

I've been saying chinrich, cherdich, and Chalin with C being a CH sound, we also have

this cutthafellow in Wessex, and we have Criota in Mercia, and there the C is pronounced

with a hard C rather than a CH.

So what's the deal there?

I mean, if you're a member and are reading through the rough transcripts, you were probably

expecting me to say Chatha and Chriota.

But no, from my reading, it's Chatha.

And now you might be wondering why there is that shift.

And a linguist will probably be able to give you a more complete answer than I can, but

as far as I can tell, old English approaches spelling the same way modern English does.

Why aren't we spelling it this way?

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