This came up on a thread the other day and I just can’t get my head around what happened and why. I can’t read IPA which obviously isn’t helping my reading
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Think about how English has vowels that we pronounce inconsistently. Like sometimes “i” and “e” could be swapped in a word.
Now imagine words were once pronounced differently. Like a different accent. For example “bite” being pronounced more like “beat”.
The pronunciation shifted over centuries to what we say today but the spelling stayed the same.
The shift refers to the location in the mouth the sound is made.
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