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Originally Posted by Bilbo1967
I believe that, as well as the relatively static nature of the people at that time, the language was going through a period of change as well.
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It was; it was the period of what's called the
Great Vowel Shift, which was a radical change in the pronunciation of English. It's this change which is the major difference between Middle English and Modern English. It's a bit of a linguistic mystery - nobody's really sure why it happened.