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Great Vowel Shift An idiosyncracy of English spelling: rat rate bit bite wed weed cot coot
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It's spespuod to be psoisble to raed tihs Tihs is qtiue esay to raed But it’s ixapnelcliby peioltrbmac to dcpeiher tihs The Bouma shape
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Great Vowel Shift An idiosyncracy of English spelling: rat rate bit bite wed weed cot coot
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OE before 1150 ME 1150-1500 Early Mod. E 1500-1650 Modern English
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> >> Great Vowel Shift later diphthonging > >> spelling change OE before 1150 ME 1150-1500 Early Mod. E 1500-1650 Modern English
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Great Vowel Shift
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Baugh p.238:
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tide sweet clean name house moon stone
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tíd swét clæn nama hús móna stán ´
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tide sweet clean name house moon stone
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tide sweet clean name house moon stone
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pull or push-chains?
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tide house
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tide house
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tide house
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tide house
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tide house
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tide house
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clean, break sweet name
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break sweet name clean
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break name stone
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face goat
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face goat
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face goat
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face goat
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GVS Long vowels only!
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