{"id":1344,"date":"2011-08-19T15:26:41","date_gmt":"2011-08-19T14:26:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/?page_id=1344"},"modified":"2011-10-06T18:19:51","modified_gmt":"2011-10-06T17:19:51","slug":"great-vowel-shift","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/?page_id=1344","title":{"rendered":":Great Vowel Shift:"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A restructuring of the <a href=\"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/?page_id=578\">vowel<\/a> system of Early Modern English, which took place from the mid 14th century to the beginning of the 16th century. All the vowels of the long vowel subsystem raised by one degree, open to open-mid, open-mid to close-mid, close-mid to close. The two close vowels <span style=\"color: navy;\"><strong>i<\/strong><\/span> and <span style=\"color: navy;\"><strong>u<\/strong><\/span> became diphthongs, ultimately <span style=\"color: navy;\"><strong>a\u026a<\/strong><\/span> and <span style=\"color: navy;\"><strong>a\u028a<\/strong><\/span> respectively.<\/p>\n<p>Some examples:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Middle English <span style=\"color: navy;\"><strong>se:<\/strong><\/span> became <span style=\"color: navy;\"><strong>si\u02d0<\/strong><\/span> <em>see<\/em><\/li>\n<li><\/li>\n<li><\/li>\n<li><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>See <a href=\"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/?page_id=1234\">height<\/a> for an explanation of the terms above.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A restructuring of the vowel system of Early Modern English, which took place from the mid 14th century to the beginning of the 16th century. All the vowels of the long vowel subsystem raised by one degree, open to open-mid, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/?page_id=1344\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":180,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1344"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1344"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1344\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3765,"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1344\/revisions\/3765"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}