This site from The Geoffrey Chaucer Page provides examples showing the difference between Chaucer's language and our own. The name of the site is the Great Vowel Shift and the text provided is medium in length, with several examples throughout.

Concepts

long vowels, geoffrey chaucer, old english

Show More Show Less

Additional Tags

medieval, chaucer, great vowel shift, middle english, history of english language, other writings and analyses of geoffrey chaucer

Show More Show Less

Classroom Considerations

• Knovation Readability Score: 4 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)

• This resource is only available on an unencrypted HTTP website.It should be fine for general use, but don’t use it to share any personally identifiable information