In my opinion, parallels with typed text are rather misleading and anachronistic. Handwritten text is an entirely different matter, and spelling itself was a very different, far more fluid phenomenon, at a time when the transmission of knowledge was entirely manual and could not rely on mechanical means such as printing or keyboards.
Scribes took shortcuts, such as omitting the dot above ‘i’. This, like the use of abbreviations and cursive scripts, was one of the ways scribes used to increase speed of writing, at the expense of readability. The result was that some readers occasionally found certain words difficult to decipher, as often happens to us modern readers as well.
As You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. points out, other differences in writing include regional pronunciation. One might therefore attempt a parallel with American "aluminum jewelry" vs British "aluminium jewellery"; however, it's important to remember how limited such parallels are.
Scribes took shortcuts, such as omitting the dot above ‘i’. This, like the use of abbreviations and cursive scripts, was one of the ways scribes used to increase speed of writing, at the expense of readability. The result was that some readers occasionally found certain words difficult to decipher, as often happens to us modern readers as well.
As You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. points out, other differences in writing include regional pronunciation. One might therefore attempt a parallel with American "aluminum jewelry" vs British "aluminium jewellery"; however, it's important to remember how limited such parallels are.