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Why is there an O in people?

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The O was not part of the Middle English term (peple) but was part of the Anglo-French words (pople aka peuple), which comes from the Latin populus. The word "people" seems to have developed as a cross between the two, while most other words from the same root (populace, population) did not adopt either the EO spelling or the unusual long E sound.

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