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You are focussing on spelling alone, but the great vowel shift is about pronunciation. Evidence for it is overwhelming unless you deliberately ignore it.

oerkelens
– oerkelens

2014-11-07 07:48:08 +00:00
Commented Nov 7, 2014 at 7:48
What evidence other than spellings do we have of how words were pronounced centuries ago?

user31186
– user31186

2014-11-09 18:47:26 +00:00
Commented Nov 9, 2014 at 18:47
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@user31186 poetry where rhyming is expected.

Mitch
– Mitch

2015-10-01 14:16:43 +00:00
Commented Oct 1, 2015 at 14:16
Shakespeare rhymed sky with memory. This shows that either the sounds of English vowels have changed, or the aesthetics of rhymes were completely different in the 16th century. The first hypothesis seems much more likely.

Peter Shor
– Peter Shor

2019-09-09 12:07:26 +00:00
Commented Sep 9, 2019 at 12:07

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