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HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 3 weeks agoYeah but what vowel set were they using in ye olde timesy shoppe? The Great Vowel Movement (previously known as the Great Vowel Shift) changed things.
Comment on *fliiiinnnnnggg*.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 3 weeks agoYeah but what vowel set were they using in ye olde timesy shoppe? The Great Vowel Movement (previously known as the Great Vowel Shift) changed things.
fakeman_pretendname@feddit.uk 3 weeks ago
It depends where it was in the country. Even now, after fast travel, radio, television etc, you can still get completely different vowels within 100 miles.
If I took the word “road” and travelled 100 miles either North/South/East/West, I could find it pronounced (as it would sound to me) as reud, raad, rird or roud.