A rather interesting story.
My History of the English Language instructor today was talking to us about standardized spelling and how Middle English didn't have it. They pretty much spelled things however they liked, it wasn't even standardized within the same text. A friend of hers grew up going to this "different" school where spelling wasn't taught at all. She says that he's a very smart person but has a really hard time now that he's trying to standardize his spelling. He can even spell a word such as "one" it winds up looking like "wun".
How crazy is that?!
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, and people may write something according to what they hear... While I know my spelling is in most cases correct because in my mind all letters are fully pronounced in my own way, and don't forget any of them 
(I actually didnt make many spelling mistakes in my own langauge either but that's much easier cos we pronunce things exactly as they're written, there are a few mistakes children make but as I was reading a lot I never did... Seeing an adult making those mistakes is something that give a very bad idea of that person...)
Middle English (ME) spelled words as they sounded. ME went from the Norman invasion in 1066 to the beginning of the 16th century. But it was when the printing press was invented at the end of the 15th century that spelling and speech seperated. The press is what standardized spelling, but then we had The Great Vowel Shift (which I haven't yet fully studied) so now we pronounce things different then we spell them.
