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Great Vowel Shift
- pronunciation:
- greIt
vaU
 l
shIft
[or]
greIt
vaUl
shIft
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noun |
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a series of shifts in English vowel sounds that took place from the fifteenth to the eighteenth century and changed the vowel system of Middle English into that of Modern English.
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