The great vowel shift was a series of changes in English pronunciation between about 14-17 hundred For example, like used to be pronounced " leek" , wife was pronounced weef, five was pronounced feev, knife was pronounced K-nif-e.

元音大转换是大约 14-1700 年之间英语发音的一系列变化。例如，就像 like 发音为“leek”一样，wife 发音为 weef，five 发音为 feev，刀发音为 K-nif-e。