Author:  Bill Bryson
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Sometimes the pronunciation changed, as between bath and bathe and as with the "s" in house becoming a "z" in houses. And sometimes, to the eternal confusion of non-English speakers, these things happened all together, so that we have not only the spelling doublet life/lives but also the pronunciation doublet "līves" and "lĭves" as in "a cat with nine lives lives next door.

( Bill Bryson )
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