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What was the invention that helped kickstart the Great Vowel Shift?

The printer.

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What is the Great Vowel Shift?

A series of pronunciation changes in the English language.

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What is the stage after Early Modern English?

Late Modern English.

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______ _______ had already become a kind of standard in manuscript documents.

London English

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Between ____ and ____ English spelling gradually became regularized.

1475, 1630

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What is a diphthong?

A sound formed by the combination of two vowels in a single syllable.

ex: (mite, meet, mate)

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Long became a _____ vowel.

front

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and were graphic variants of what?

A single letter.
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What are 'strong verbs'?

Verbs which indicate tense by a vowel change (and do not have a dental segment but I don't expect the class to remember that).

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Provide an example of an affirmative question:

If you said something like "do you [verb] this" or "would you [verb] this", you're right.

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