Episode 136: The Real Robin Hood
The History of English Podcast
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The Great Vowel Shift
The Great Vow Shift was like a game of musical chairs. All the long vowel sounds shifted around. People were raising A up to E, they were also shifting E as well. That process affected all of those early French loan words. But it doesn't explain why curtussi and charatae didn't follow along with native English words.
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