For English, this is partly because the Great Vowel Shift occurred after the orthography was established, and because English has acquired a large number of loanwords at different times, retaining their original spelling at varying levels.

* Great Vowel Shift ( English )

* Great Vowel Shift

The name may be related to ui in various medieval languages ; in Middle English it was wi, which through the Great Vowel Shift became the Modern English wy.

In addition, the Great Vowel Shift, a historical linguistic process in which the quality of many vowels in English changed while the spelling remained as it was, greatly diminished the transparency of English spelling in relation to pronunciation.

In words coming from Middle English, most cases of the Modern English diphthongs originate from the Middle English long monophthongs through the Great Vowel Shift, although some cases of originate from the Middle English diphthongs.

The most common understanding of the Great Vowel Shift is that the Middle English vowels passed through a stage on the way to their modern pronunciations.

The English term Canaan ( pronounced /' keɪnən / since c. 1500, thanks to the Great Vowel Shift ) comes from the Hebrew ( knʿn ), via Greek Khanaan and Latin.

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The large number of words assimilated from other languages is one of them ; and even more importantly, English began to be widely written and printed during the Middle English period: the subsequent development of modern English included a Great Vowel Shift and many other changes in phonology.

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

Modern English ( sometimes New English as opposed to Middle English and Old English ) is the form of the English language spoken since the Great Vowel Shift in England, completed in roughly 1550.

The sound changes heard in modern English mostly begin with the Great Vowel Shift, and continue through the development and recognition of the General American dialect and the cot – caught merger.

* The long vowel of boat had been raised to as a result of the Great Vowel Shift.

* NPR story " American Accent Undergoing Great Vowel Shift "

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

The irregularity of English spelling is partly because the Great Vowel Shift occurred after the orthography was established, and because English has acquired a large number of loanwords at different times, retaining their original spelling at varying levels.

Modern English is considered to have begun at a conventional date of about 1550, most notably at the end of the Great Vowel Shift ( for example, bot, the footwear, more as in boat to boot ).

A well-known chain shift in the history of English is the Great Vowel Shift of the 15th century, which can be summarized as follows:

This, and other changes in English pronunciation took place between 1200 AD and 1600 AD and are now known as the Great Vowel Shift.

came into Latin as, into Old French, by contamination with Latin " cream " as ( Modern French ) and finally into English, in the 14th century as creme, spelled cream with the Great Vowel Shift from the 15th century ( crème as a dessert ingredient was re-borrowed in the 19th century ).

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

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

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

Another good friend of the Coolidges' was George B. Harvey, who was the Ambassador to Great Britain from 1921 to 1923.

On one visit he stopped at the office of the American, where he was known surreptitiously as `` the Great White Chief '', and for the first time met his managing editor, fat Moses Koenigsberg.

I was anxious to hear about those dazzling days on the Great White Way.

And in the dark days after the Great Flood of 1927 -- the worst natural disaster in the state's history -- the little plane was its sole replacement in carrying the United States mails.

His chief discovery was important -- the Great North ( later, the Hudson ) River -- but it produced no northwest passage.

As the bergs grew larger, Hudson was forced to turn south into what is now Ungava Bay, an inlet of the Great Strait.

One who, for a time, succeeded best and was still the sorriest of all was Charles Arthur Shires, who called himself, in the newspapers, Art the Great, or The Great Shires.

The movie was The Great Train Robbery and its effects on the young industry and art were all but incalculable.

she was already considering putting in rebellious requests for duty at San Diego, Bremerton, the Great Lakes, Pensacola -- any place the Navy had a hospital -- with a threat to resign her commission if the request were not granted.

Aristotle (, Aristotélēs ) ( 384 BC – 322 BC ) was a Greek philosopher and polymath, a student of Plato and teacher of Alexander the Great.

Several of the sights on her trip inspired her, and they found their way into her poem, including the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, the " White City " with its promise of the future contained within its alabaster buildings ; the wheat fields of America's heartland Kansas, through which her train was riding on July 16 ; and the majestic view of the Great Plains from high atop Zebulon's Pikes Peak.

In Korea, the Hangul alphabet was created by Sejong the Great Hangul is a unique alphabet: it is a featural alphabet, where many of the letters are designed from a sound's place of articulation ( P to look like the widened mouth, L to look like the tongue pulled in, etc.

The idea that the Turkic, Mongolic, and Tungusic languages are closely related to each other was allegedly first published in 1730 by Philip Johan von Strahlenberg, a Swedish officer who traveled in the eastern Russian Empire while a prisoner of war after the Great Northern War.

In The Double Clue Poirot mentions that he was Chief of Police of Brussels, until " the Great War " ( WWI ) forced him to leave for England.

Tin was rare, however, being found mostly in Great Britain.

Iuliu Maniu ( 1873 – 1953 ) was prime minister with an agrarian cabinet from 1928 to 1930, but the Great Depression made proposed reforms impossible.

304 – 232 BC ), commonly known as Ashoka and also as Ashoka the Great, was an Indian emperor of the Maurya Dynasty who ruled almost all of the Indian subcontinent from ca.

Cuarón's next feature was also a literary adaptation, a modernized version of Charles Dickens's Great Expectations starring Ethan Hawke, Gwyneth Paltrow, and Robert De Niro.

Philippus claimed descent from Alexander the Great, and was elected consul in 56 BC.

Anthony the Great, who had retired to the Egyptian Thebaid during the persecution of Maximian, AD 312, was the most celebrated among them for his austerities, his sanctity, and his power as an exorcist.