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Image: Great Vowel Shift

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Description: The long and short vowels of English, pronunciation 1400 to today.
Title: Great Vowel Shift
Credit: Transferred from en.wikipedia to Commons by Kjoonlee. The information is from: Theo Stemmler, Die Entwicklung der englischen Haupttonvokale: eine Übersicht in Tabellenform (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1965).
Author: Olaf Simons at English Wikipedia
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