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When did "to-day" become "today"?

And why was it spelled that way?
Lenona.
  

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(Email Removed): [nq:1]And why was it spelled that way? [/nq] From Old English 'to dæg': 'on (this) day'. (The 'o' was long.

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  • (Email Removed): [nq:1]And why was it spelled that way?
  • [/nq] From Old English 'to dæg': 'on (this) day'.
  • (The 'o' was long.
  • ) In Middle English (Chaucer) it became 'to-day' and it stayed like that until the beginning of the C20th.
  • ) Peter
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[nq:1]And why was it spelled that way? Lenona.[/nq]
From Old English 'to dæg': 'on (this) day'. (The 'o' was long. It should have a line - a macron - over it.) In Middle English (Chaucer) it became 'to-day' and it stayed like that until the beginning of the C20th. (I've found 'to-day' in 1895, and 'today' in 1922.)
Peter
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[nq:2]And why was it spelled that way? Lenona.[/nq]
[nq:1]From Old English 'to dæg': 'on (this) day'. (The 'o' was long. It should have a line - a macron ... it stayed like that until the beginning of the C20th. (I've found 'to-day' in 1895, and 'today' in 1922.) Peter[/nq]
My primary school teacher always used to-day in the late 1960s, Manchester, England.
Martin.
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