So why? Because of the Great Vowel Shift.

为什么会这样？因为元音大转换。

The spelling in English mostly got fixed before the great vowel shift.

英语中的拼写在元音大转变之前就已经基本固定了。

That's too late for the Great Vowel Shift. So it was fixed as tomato.

这对于大元音转换来说太晚了。所以它被固定为西红柿。

So before the great vowel shift, it would have been pronounced like that potato, after the Great Vowel Shift, it gets changed to potato.

所以土豆的发音在元音大转变之前和之后不一样。

The great vowel shift affected different dialects within England and Scotland in different ways.

巨大的元音变化以不同的方式影响着英格兰和苏格兰的不同方言。

Shakespeare wrote towards the end of the great vowel shift and marks the start of the early modern English.

莎士比亚在元音大转变即将结束时写作，标志着早期现代英语的开始。

Why did the Great Vowel Shift take place? Well, this is a source of much debate.

为什么会发生元音大转变？嗯，这是一个很多争论的来源。

It's all to do with the fact that the spelling was set before the Great Vowel Shift.

这一切都与拼写设置在元音大转变之前的事实有关。

The great vowel shift marks a change between middle English and modern English.

元音的巨大变化标志着中古英语和现代英语之间的转变。

I might make a video about the great vowel shift at a later date.

我可能会在以后制作一个关于元音大转变的视频。

One theory is that it's all due to the great vowel shift.

一种理论认为这都是由于元音的巨大转换。

You see, the great vowel shift affected some areas more than others.

你看，巨大的元音变化对某些区域的影响比其他区域更大。

If you've ever wondered why English spelling is so erratic, one of the main culprits is the Great Vowel Shift.

如果你想知道为什么英语的拼写是如此的不规则，元音大转变是罪魁祸首之一。

The other change is what is called the Great Vowel Shift.

另一个变化就是所谓的元音大移位。

And this could be due to the fact that the popularization of tobacco and hence the word came too late for the Great Vowel Shift.

这可能是由于烟草的普及，因此这个词对于元音的大转变来说来得太晚了。

However, today I'll just give you a few examples before the Great Vowel Shift, house, mouse and spouse would have been pronounced hus, mus and spus.

然而，今天我只给你们举几个例子，在元音大转变之前，house、mouse 和 spouse 会发音为 hus、mus 和 spus。

Linguists aren't sure, and it could be that immigrants to Canada came from parts of Britain that were less affected by the Great Vowel Shift.

语言学家不确定，加拿大的移民可能来自英国受元音大转变影响较小的地区。

And most importantly for our Scone debate in the latter phase of the great vowel shift boon became bone. Noon became known. Stoon became stone.

最重要的是，对于我们的司康辩论来说，在元音大转变的后期，boon 变成了 bone。Noon 变成了 known。Stoon 变成了 stone。

After the Great Vowel Shift, the pronunciations of these and similar words would have been much more like they are spoken today.

在元音大转变之后， 这些词和类似词的发音会更像今天所说的。

So generally speaking, American English is English that had gone through the great vowel shift, whereas many accents in the north of England preserve vowel sounds to this day.

所以一般来说，美式英语是经历了元音大转变的英语，而英格兰北部的许多口音至今仍保留元音。