Timeline for Why do written English vowels differ from other Latin-based orthographies?
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| Sep 9, 2019 at 12:07 | comment | added | Peter Shor | 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. | |
| Oct 1, 2015 at 14:16 | comment | added | Mitch | @user31186 poetry where rhyming is expected. | |
| Sep 29, 2015 at 19:17 | review | Late answers | |||
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| Nov 9, 2014 at 18:47 | comment | added | user31186 | What evidence other than spellings do we have of how words were pronounced centuries ago? | |
| Nov 7, 2014 at 7:48 | comment | added | oerkelens | You are focussing on spelling alone, but the great vowel shift is about pronunciation. Evidence for it is overwhelming unless you deliberately ignore it. | |
| Nov 7, 2014 at 7:23 | history | answered | user31186 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |