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Great Vowel Shift

Great Vowel Shift

 
pronunciation:
greIt vaU l shIft [or] greIt vaUl shIft
part of speech: noun
definition: 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.