On 10/4/06, Bob W <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Oh, there is! It's very simple and easy to understand, provided you > can read and speak Anglo-Saxon, Old Norse, Latin and Norman French, > and fully understand the history and background of the Great Vowel > Shift.
Ah yes. The Great Vowel Shift (or as I prefer to call it, "The Tense Vowel Shift"). That's when the language started doing downhill, IMHO, and it's been going downhill ever since. cheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeers (how's that for a long vowel?), fraaaaaank -- "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
