The sound of "i" in the word "live" is not in agreement with that in the word "like", most probably because ______________.
A.
one of them is a borrowed word which happens to have the similar pattern of spelling but different sound patterns
B.
the scribes in the early days changed the spelling of some words, but the sound was not changed correspondingly
C.
many modern scholars have made efforts to reform the English orthography
D.
the sound "i" in one word has changed, though they both originally had the same sound of "i"