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Word for the Wise: The Great Vowel Shift
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 [...]
