Industrial and Scientific Revolution
The difference between l and early English resides in accumulation of words added to the English vocabulary, with pronunciation, grammar and spelling remaining largely unchanged. This was due to the Industrial Revolution and rise of the British Empire. Requiring more words for things and ideas that had not previously existed.
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During the 15th, 16th and 17th centuries a radical change in pronunciation began to take place in the English language. Transforming Middle English into a form of early Modern English. This was the result of vowel sounds being made higher and further forward in the mouth, with shorter vowel sounds mostly unchanged, and the transition happening slowly between 1400 and 1700. A lot of languages undergo vowel shifts, but none as quickly as the English vowel shift in linguistic terms. The purer vowel sounds that had been used by most European languages, and phonetic pairings of long and short vowel sounds, were gradually disappearing, and this took place within a century or two.
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The Norman Conquest of 1066, by William the Conqueror, triggered the transition from Old English to Middle English. This was because William the Conqueror made Britain into his homebase, at the time, moving his court and nobles into the country. By overpowering the enemy with a brutal hand, and stripping the Anglo Saxon Earls of their property, and handing it out to the Normans, and those that supported him.
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