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That's very cool, I didn't know about this one. Thankfully it doesn't add any stress reading (in fact it's to disambiguate words), only complicates writing.

Chinese has a rule where content sentences are minimum three characters. You'd never say 我好 "I'm good". At best you can drop the pronoun and say 很好 "pretty good" but the third character is implied.

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Great overview!

One typo?

For example, any and many were spelled based on one dialect, but spelled based on another dialect instead of the also current spellings eny, meny.

I think one of those "spelled" should be "pronounced".

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