why the H*CK is "choir" not spelled "quire"?

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• Imipolex G

  2018-01-07 19:23:35

  Touch the cow. Do it now.
  

  perhaps we should inquire about this
  
• glennmagusharvey

  2018-01-07 19:29:35

  kwaiur
• glennmagusharvey

  2018-01-07 19:30:22

  H*ll, USA
  F*ck, Austria
  Sh*t, Iran
  
• Tatterhood

  2018-01-07 19:32:28

  Wiktionary said:

  Alternative forms

  • quire (archaic)

  thinking emoji
  
• eriophora zia

  2018-01-07 20:44:12

  I have cut a caper with the dancing mad god

  Possibly a pronunciation shift? Or multiple shifts. Also, old English writers basically just made shit up when it came to spelling, so that probably didn't help. 
• glennmagusharvey

  2018-01-07 20:47:39

  Real Academia Inglesa no existe
  
• Calica

  2018-01-08 00:16:47

  Sup bitches, witches, Haters, and trolls.

  Central Avenue said:

  this drove me nuts as a child.

  i just assumed it was spelled "quire"
• SF_Sorrow

  2018-01-08 02:17:23

  
  

  Middle English quer, quere, from Old French quer, from Latin chorus. The spelling change in the 17th century was due to association with Latin chorus and modern French choeur

  and coincidentally there is a word 'quire' that comes from a different etymology