Great Vowel Shift
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Great Vowel Shift
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#2If anyone finds this subject interesting, I recommend The History of English Podcast: https://historyofenglishpodcast.com.
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#3The vowel shift is one of the major reasons why Shakespeare's poetry doesn't rhyme when spoken with modern English. There was a rather fascinating video that went around awhile back of a father and son demonstrating the changes.[1]
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#4The article doesn't explain what evidence we have of this. How do we know this happened?
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#5The vowel shift is one of the major reasons why Shakespeare's poetry doesn't rhyme when spoken with modern English. There was a rather fascinating video that went around awhile back of a father and son demonstrating the changes.[1] [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPlpphT7n9s
Shakespeare's plays post-date the bulk of the Great Vowel Shift. The reason they don’t rhyme is only partly because of the very last phases of the Great Vowel Shift, and partly due to the changing English dialectal landscape.
The classic English author for whom the Great Vowel Shift is most relevant, in terms of audiences today not pronouncing the text anywhere near as society then would have, is Chaucer.
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#6If anyone finds this subject interesting, I recommend The History of English Podcast: https://historyofenglishpodcast.com .
Oh wow, I've never seen anyone rep that podcast elsewhere, but I highly recommend it. It's absolutely fascinating. I'm not much of a podcast listener, but this one pretty much immediately captured my attention and has held it (I'm now a ~70 episodes in IIRC).
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#7The article doesn't explain what evidence we have of this. How do we know this happened?
English orthography is a dead giveaway. For example, why does the letter "i" in most continental European languages represent the vowel /i/, while in English it represents a diphthong? The way French loanwords or Latinisms are pronounced in modern English is similar evidence.
Also, vowel chain shifts are exceedingly common across the languages of the world: compare Tatar and Kazakh to the other languages of their subgroup (Kipchak) within the Turkic family, for instance. Sometimes a vowel chain shift can even be observed in progress, as in the case of the Northern Cities Shift in the USA. [0]
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inland_Northern_American_Engli...
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#8If anyone finds this subject interesting, I recommend The History of English Podcast: https://historyofenglishpodcast.com .
Can't upvote this enough; it's a great podcast. If this seems just a little too esoteric, might I appeal to everybody's prurient side and recommend Chaucer's Vulgar Tongue [0] as a gateway episode?
[0] https://historyofenglishpodcast.com/2019/09/25/episode-129-c...
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#9The vowel shift is one of the major reasons why Shakespeare's poetry doesn't rhyme when spoken with modern English. There was a rather fascinating video that went around awhile back of a father and son demonstrating the changes.[1] [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPlpphT7n9s
Another slightly related video by Tom Scott https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dUnGvH8fUUc
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#10I recommend to read the following article before reading that wiki post. So we need to understand what does a Vokal (Vowel) mean first.
https://github.com/yogurt-cultures/kefir/blob/master/kefir/p...
Also I shifted one Const sound in the wikipedia article.