PugJesus@lemmy.worldM to A Comm for Historymemes@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-23 months ago"This wenche thikke" - Geoffrey Chaucer, the Father of English literaturelemmy.worldexternal-linkmessage-square22fedilinkarrow-up1655arrow-down16
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minus-squareMonkderVierte@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·edit-23 months agoI notice that german has changed far less than english in the past few centuries. Because colonialism? Edit: ok, english has changed more instead.
minus-squarePugJesus@lemmy.worldOPMlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12·3 months agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Vowel_Shift
I notice that german has changed far less than english in the past few centuries. Because colonialism?
Edit: ok, english has changed more instead.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Vowel_Shift