Dialectology

language-and-grammar

‘What is ye doing now’ is an archaic or dialectal way of asking ‘what are you doing now.’ The pronoun ‘ye’ was the standard second-person plural in Early Modern Engl...

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language-and-linguistics

Vowel shifts describe systematic, directional changes in the pronunciation of vowel sounds within a language over time. This guide explains what vowel shifts are, how they arise...

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