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vowel shift

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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
vowel shift

▶noun a phonetic change in a vowel or vowels.

■ (the Great Vowel Shift) a series of changes between medieval and modern English affecting the long vowels of the standard language.

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