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Great Vowel Shift An idiosyncracy of English spelling: rat rate bit bite wed weed cot coot.

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1 Great Vowel Shift An idiosyncracy of English spelling: rat rate bit bite wed weed cot coot

2 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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4 Great Vowel Shift An idiosyncracy of English spelling: rat rate bit bite wed weed cot coot

5 OE before 1150 ME 1150-1500 Early Mod. E 1500-1650 Modern English

6 > >> Great Vowel Shift later diphthonging > >> spelling change OE before 1150 ME 1150-1500 Early Mod. E 1500-1650 Modern English

7 Great Vowel Shift

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9 Baugh p.238:

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12 tide sweet clean name house moon stone

13 tíd swét clæn nama hús móna stán ´

14 tide sweet clean name house moon stone

15 tide sweet clean name house moon stone

16 pull or push-chains?

17 tide house

18 tide house

19 tide house

20 tide house

21 tide house

22 tide house

23 clean, break sweet name

24 break sweet name clean

25 break name stone

26 face goat

27 face goat

28 face goat

29 face goat

30 GVS Long vowels only!

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