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nemetroid on April 14, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: Great Vowel Shift

The pre-shift vowels are quite similar to how modern Swedish is pronounced.

hashmush on April 14, 2021 [–]

For the front ones, maybe. But for the back ones Old Swedish went through "stora vokaldansen" (the great vowel dance) leading to "ut" (out) being pronounced /ʉːt/ rather than /uːt/.

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