Episode 141: The Great Vowel Shift (Part 1)
The History of English Podcast
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The Great Vowel Shif
During the course of the great vowel shift, each of those sounds shifted higher or further back. This time we're going to focus on those two highest vowls, e and a. During the late middle english period, most of the words that had that sound started to be pronounced differently. Over the next three or four centuries, that sound continued to evolve, and it eventually ended up as the sound that we pronounce to day.
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