Uploaded September 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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- Kevin Stroud from The history of English Podcast explains how we know what English sounded like at the time of Chaucer (around 1400), before the Great Vowel Shift.

Check out the full interview here.
youtu.be/_1hahaLQ_DY

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