I invite any of the experts in our hobby to develop these ideas freely. Perhaps there is nothing we can do to alter this situation. Informant did not really know the information he gave. Informant only wanted to get rid of the questioner. Informant felt he had reason to hide the truth.
Questioner misheard the informant.
Questioner did not appreciate the meaning of what he was told. A mistake was made in transcription. Spelling Spelling and seeming spelling errors are in a class of their own. Over the ages, both pronunciation and spelling have varied and the interaction between the two is quite complex. Even at any one time, individual clerks had their own indivdual practices in spelling.