Great Vowel Shift

This was the start of the Great Vowel Shift.

Not all words underwent certain phases of the Great Vowel Shift.

This terminology reflects their pronunciation before the Great Vowel Shift.

See Great Vowel Shift for more information.

(The historic basis for this is in the Great Vowel Shift.)

Great Vowel Shift; all long vowels raised or diphthongized.

The thing that would most completely bewilder our hero would be another Great Vowel Shift.

German and Dutch also experienced sound changes resembling the first stage of the Great Vowel Shift.

Norwegian and Swedish also experienced something similar to the Great Vowel Shift in their back vowels, although the results were different.

The Middle English sound change occurred before the Great Vowel Shift and other changes to the nature of vowels.

Modern English is often dated from the Great Vowel Shift, which took place mainly during the 15th century.

The Middle English vowels are well-preserved, with no evidence of the Great Vowel Shift.

The best-known example in the English language is the Great Vowel Shift, which began in the 15th century.

This orthographic pattern followed the phonological changes of the Great Vowel Shift in late Middle English.

Great Vowel Shift (English)

The name participated in the Great Vowel Shift in late Middle English (15th century).

The Great Vowel Shift was a major change in the pronunciation of the English language that took place in England between 1350 and 1700.

The increase in social mobility that the Black Death contributed to may have been one means by which the Great Vowel Shift was propagated.

I'll keep watching, if only to see Mr Fry's presentation of The Great Vowel Shift.

The Great Vowel Shift was a series of chain shifts that affected historical long vowels but left short vowels largely alone.

The differences in pronunciation of vowel letters between English and other languages can be accounted for by the Great Vowel Shift.

And prose survived language changes: developments such as the Great vowel shift changed almost all the European languages during the 14th and 15th centuries.

The effect of the Great Vowel Shift may be seen very clearly in the English names of many of the letters of the alphabet.

Around the year 1500, the Great Vowel Shift marked the transformation of Middle English into Modern English.

(This is a relic of the Great Vowel Shift, during which vowels that were once pronounced phonemically longer became these diphthongs.)