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。

However, there was a kind of mini vowel shift in the 18th century in and around London.

然而，在 18 世纪伦敦及其周边地区出现了一种小型元音转换。

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。

So that vowel shift goes from ih, to uh.

所以元音转换从 ih, 到 uh。

Between 1400 and 1700, the pronunciations of many English vowels shifted.

在 1400 到 1700 年间，许多英语元音的发音发生了变化。

The famous drawl is largely a matter of the " southern vowel shift" .

著名的慢吞吞的声音很大程度上是“南元音转变”的问题。

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。

We're talking about vowel shifting in irregular verbs, which is gonna sound a little weird, but bear with me.

我们谈论的是不规则动词中的元音转换，这听起来有点奇怪，但请耐心等待。

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。