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Originally Posted by Shayne Parkinson
...I heard a linguist on the radio a little while ago commenting that the sounds in "sea" and "see" used to be distinguishable by English speakers. Vowel sounds have a way of being combined....
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I've often wondered how 'love' and 'prove' sounded a few centuries ago. I've noticed that many of the older poets used these words as if they rhymed.