The Spoken History of a Global Language
Episode 141: The Great Vowel Shift (Part 1)
September 24, 2020
55:43
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The term ‘Great Vowel Shift’ was coined in the early 1900s by the Danish linguist Otto Jespersen to describe a systematic change in the long vowel sounds of English. The changes help to mark the transition from Middle English to … Continue reading →