The Great Vowel Shift

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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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There are a couple of great YouTube videos on this, that don’t require you to read IPA.

RobWords: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmL6FClRC_s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmL6FClRC_s)

The History Guy: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VOOAb7erAmE](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VOOAb7erAmE)

(And others.) I hope this passes “rule 3” muster, but it truly is almost impossible to explain without hearing, so videos are way better than writing it out.

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