Quote Originally Posted by Rawhide View Post
Correct. A mistake made so much, it became the correct spelling and the old one was dropped. This happened in English, after the word had transferred from French.
Of course, it happened in the 1400s, when the idea of standardized spelling was not even a twinkle in our language's eye. If it looked like it sounded (since every letter was pronounced at the time), it was considered correct back then.