Computer mouses and the history of English

At the time of Chaucer, "death" and "life" rhymed. See below for the Great Vowel Shift. First, the language patterns that provided a range of vowels and vocabulary to begin with.

    

 

 

 

 

 

Screenshots from :   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oz8tEPXI25A 

Other videos from The Virtual Linguistics Campus  

Great Vowel Shift

 

Historical bases of GVS citing ELLO

 

 

Summary from Dr. Menzer at Furman University

 

from Current trends (PBS) :

Californian 

 

 

 

Northern

Southern

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VOOAb7erAmE The Great Vowel Shift and the History of Britain (has commercials)

http://web.archive.org/web/20210129062418/http://facweb.furman.edu/~mmenzer/gvs/what.htm

https://www.furman.edu/people/melinda-menzer/

https://www.furman.edu/

http://web.archive.org/web/20210426075516/https://www.thehistoryofenglish.com/history_early_modern.html 

https://zentrum.virtuos.uni-osnabrueck.de/wikifarm/fields/english-language/field.php/EarlyModernEnglish/GreatVowelShift 

from The Virtual Linguistics Campus - History https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oz8tEPXI25A 

and the Great Vowel shift: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zyhZ8NQOZeo 

http://web.archive.org/web/20210516213555/https://www.pbs.org/speak/ahead/change/changin/

Articles on the California vowel shift:

http://www.nwav43.illinois.edu/program/documents/Pratt-LongAbstract.pdf 

http://stanford.edu/class/linguist159/restricted/readings/Podesva_etal_2014

https://www.laweekly.com/the-californians-ridiculous-accents-on-snl-might-reflect-golden-state-reality/

https://laist.com/news/is-there-such-a-thing-as-a-southern

 

Hat/Tip MK

Murder Durder - An Extremely Pennsylvania Crime Show (Elon Musk) | SNL S46 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qaKZi6p6sxg