For post-Chaucer English mediaeval Latin, Great Vowel Shift pronunciation is as accurate as it gets .-- talk ) 12 : 11, 7 January 2011 ( UTC)
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Another example is the Great Vowel Shift in English, which is the reason that the spelling of English vowels do not correspond well to their current pronunciation.
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Examples of simulfixes in English are generally considered irregularities, all of which left over from pluralization rules that existed before the Great Vowel Shift . They include:
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With the Great Vowel Shift, the language in this period matured to a standard and differed significantly from the Middle English period, becoming recognizably " modern ".
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Soon after the Cheke and Smith reforms, English underwent the Great Vowel Shift which changed the phonetic values assigned to the English " long vowels " in particular.
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Other spelling differences appear when Esperanto spelling is based on the pronunciation of English names which have undergone the Great Vowel Shift, as in " Brajtono " for Brighton.
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The Great Vowel Shift that began in the south of England in the 15th century is one of the historical events marking the separation of Middle and Modern English.
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Significant changes in pronunciation took place, especially in the case of long vowels and diphthongs, which in the later Middle English period began to undergo the Great Vowel Shift.
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Many of the problems in English likely would appear even if Caxton had invented a new alphabet perfect for English, due to the Great Vowel Shift, and other lingual shifts.
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Perhaps, he said, the changing sound of the pronoun I, as the Great Vowel Shift got into gear, prompted scribes to mark the new sound with a more assertive symbol.
