However, once they retrieved reinforcements they rallied at a place called Sluggan, and managed to successfully respell the foreigners.

Rather than endure have to spell and respell his name, Bibbs suggested the reporter just call him "Rainey" since it was raining that day.

Later attempts to respell some words in accordance with their Latin etymologies further increased the number of silent letters (e.g. temps vs. older tens - compare English "tense", which reflects the original spelling - and vingt vs. older vint).