{"id":319,"date":"2007-01-29T07:38:28","date_gmt":"2007-01-29T06:38:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/wordpress\/?p=319"},"modified":"2007-01-29T07:38:28","modified_gmt":"2007-01-29T06:38:28","slug":"the-great-vowel-shift","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=319","title":{"rendered":"The Great Vowel Shift"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My mother was Italian and had trouble understanding why English spelling and pronunciation was so inconsistent compared to a straightforward language like Italian. For instance, she would pronounce the phrase &#8220;good food&#8221; with &#8220;food&#8221; rhyming with &#8220;good&#8221; (logical enough).<br \/>\nIn part, the explanation for the inconsistent pronunciation probably lies in the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Great_Vowel_Shift\">Great Vowel Shift<\/a> which occurred around the 15th century. But why did this shift occur? We don&#8217;t know &#8211; but it might have been <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Great_Vowel_Shift#History\">a consequence of the Black Death<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My mother was Italian and had trouble understanding why English spelling and pronunciation was so inconsistent compared to a straightforward language like Italian. For instance, she would pronounce the phrase &#8220;good food&#8221; with &#8220;food&#8221; rhyming with &#8220;good&#8221; (logical enough). In part, the explanation for the inconsistent pronunciation probably lies in the Great Vowel Shift which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cultural-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}