Master for Webs

On October 25th in the year 1400 the great poet Geoffrey Chaucer died. Linguists use his passing to mark the beginning of evolution from Middle English to Modern English. One of the most significant linguistic events of that transition was the Great Vowel Shift, a dramatic change in the pronunciation of the long vowels that took nearly 200 years to run its course.

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In the beginning, online banks had a simple strategy: With the money they saved by not owning expensive, marble-clad branches, they could offer high-interest, low-fee bank accounts that would bring customers flocking to their virtual doors. (more...)