Under the reign of King Alfred the Great, grew greatly in popularity and started to overtake , and did so completely by the Middle English period. in turn went obsolete by the Early Modern English period, mostly due to the rise of the printing press, and was replaced by the digraph .
Under the reign of King Alfred the Great grew greatly in popularity and started to overtake  and did so completely by the Middle English period in turn went obsolete by the Early Modern English period mostly due to the rise of the printing press and was replaced by the digraph 