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17: Vowel Gymnastics

Lingthusiasm - A podcast that's enthusiastic about linguistics

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The Great Vowel Shif in the History of English

apologetics is essentially like a reskin of ludo, where you move different colored counters around the board. This is why i like talking about vowel gymnastics, because the vowels kind of topple over. They don't just do these individual, atomized things by themselves. And there's also a really qool example of this in the history of english, a really good example called the grat vowel shift. It's pretty great it's pretty great. You know, all the other ones are named after their locations.

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