Well, if you want to go that far back, this is pointless. You could say that the word itself was a distortion of a different word even before the normans.

Anyway, the word was taken from the english, and the vowel taken out. So the original is correct in as much as it still exists now and hasnt been changed in england.
If you want to start saying lets take pointless letters out, your going to have to re-structure a whole lotta words my friend.

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