1 1 - It is "Why did he not come to work?" 2 -The shortened form is "Why didn't he come to work?" This is something that confuses learners. But almost everybody discovers by reading that in the long form (1) "did" and "not" don't stand together. Everybody has to learn this except Germans who say it in the same way. I mean the long form.

7 There actually does seem to be an explanation for the different spellings of speak and speech, and it even covers why speech would have variant spellings with <ea>. The ancestors of these words had different vowels in Proto-Germanic.

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