>>>I think you mean "often" :)
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>>Thank you.
>>Speaking something and spelling it can be confusing.
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>Here, I've laid out almost all the rules, with examples, at http://ndragan.com/langsr/gnorools_O.html (that's for O, but there's the other 25 too). Now you only need to know which rule applies when.

Americans did not speak English. They only speak a conglomerate of other languages.