Southern Hemisphere Australia New Zealand South Africa

The Hobo-Dyer Cylindrical Equal Area Projection

Middle English Great Vowel Shift Shakespeare British American R Dropping BATH Broadening BritishS. Hem Front Vowel Raising H-Dropping T-Glotalling L-Vocalization Loss of distinctive length LOT Unrounding Later Yod Dropping T-Voicing

Middle English Great Vowel Shift Shakespeare British American R Dropping BATH Broadening BritishS. Hem Front Vowel Raising H-Dropping T-Glotalling L-Vocalization Diphthong Shift FOOT-STRUT Split NURSE Merger Loss of distinctive length LOT Unrounding Later Yod Dropping T-Voicing BATH Lengthening

British R Dropping BATH Broadening BritishS. Hem Front Vowel RaisingH-Dropping T-Glotalling L-Vocalization Diphthong Shift BATH Lengthening

The last slide was a picture of my mother on a bridge in Dorset in the late 1930s. The text on the sign reads: DORSET. Any person willfully INJURING any part of this COUNTY BRIDGE will be guilty of FELONY and upon conviction liable to be TRANSPORTED FOR LIFE by the Court. Var Geo 4C30S13 T. Fooks.

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