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The Great Vowel Shift
Posted by: plockplock (---.dhcp.klmz.mi.charter.com)
Date: August 04, 2015 12:09AM

I blame Vanna White.

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Re: The Great Vowel Shift
Posted by: bunyip (101.185.147.---)
Date: November 25, 2015 11:27AM

I initially thought 'castor oil' but the I reread the title of the thread and I blame Melvyn Bragg for the book/TV series 'The Adventure of English'.


Before that no one was aware of it to any marked extent.

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