[Magdalen] Calvary is the New Cavalry.

[ME Michaud]

The LV and LR combinations are particularly difficult, and if you don't
learn them as a child they're extremely hard to learn as an adult.
Also LM (many people pronounce elm as ellum).

Like the English TH for French speakers, the Spanish or
French R for English speakers, the English R for Japanese
speakers. Successfully learning these as an adult is a
real achievement.
-M

By contrast, 20th and 21st century handwriting is awful, and since  the
> advent of the computer age, mostly dreadful.  These 19th century
> persons were literate in the basics.  I have to admire them, and I'll  bet,
> also, that they knew the difference between calvary and cavalry..
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