Good question, except that we don’t sound like we speak Middle English. I know
one technique is to look at poetry that rhymes and see what rhymes with what.
Interesting, that.
I first encountered the notion of the vowel shift in a science-fiction book,
The Domesday Book, by Connie something or other. A very good time-travel story
set in Oxford and England the year the plague arrived. Published _years_ ago.
One of the original goals of the young woman going back in time was to gather
evidence on the early permutations of the vowel shift.
--Bob Whitmire
Certified Neanderthal
On Mar 21, 2014, at 2:18 AM, Chris Barker <ftog@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> How does he know that the way they spoke changed?
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