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Why do people spell swap as swop?


Language evolves — and spelling often shifts with it. The history of swap and swop goes back over 800 years. So, swop isn’t a typo — it simply reflected how some people pronounced “swap” in older dialects, especially in Northern England.


FOC confirmed.
Why, how do southern ponces say it?
 

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