Listening to Kiwis on TV, I’m POSITIVE New Zealand has gone through a 2nd Great Vowel Shift.
#HistoryoftheEnglishLanguage #languagegeek
@lagerhoof for example: “yet” has become “yit”, “fence” has become ‘fince” … I’ll try to evaluate if it effects the other short vowels too.
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@lagerhoof Yes - increasingly so over the last few years; I probably notice it more because I go once a year or more so I notice the change
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