Vitalik Buterin
@vitalik.eth
The Great Vowel Shift. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Vowel_Shift
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accountless
@accountless.eth
“Middle class hypercorrection” 👀 (love that painting in the tweet)
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Hugo HIRING ✦⁺
@hm
A masterpiece of a video covering this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8zWWp0akUU
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rafa (Devcon)
@rafa
This needs a video with sound
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bennet
@bgrill.eth
This is a fun 🐇 🕳️ . I'm surprised Chomsky wasn't cited in the wiki! https://web.mit.edu/morrishalle/pubworks/papers/1968_Chomsky_Halle_The_Sound_Pattern_of_English.pdf
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vrypan |--o--|
@vrypan.eth
One of my fav podcasts. Really worth listening to it, not just this episode: https://historyofenglishpodcast.com/2020/09/24/episode-141-the-great-vowel-shift-part-1/
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Alephwyr
@alephwyr
It hasn't happened yet.
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Squirt Studio
@303
Looks like it's because of the French as always ,🤣
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Sui
@sui
Can someone elaborate this?
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