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Great Vowel Shift, an Uncommon card
The Great Vowel Shift was a series of pronunciation changes in the vowels of the English language that took place primarily between 1400 and 1700, beginning in southern England and having influenced effectively all dialects of English today.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Society
- ATK
- 69
- DEF
- 40
- Power
- 109
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 200,000
Power 109 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 50 % of WikiCards cards.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- Through this extensive vowel shift, the pronunciation of all Middle English long vowels altered.
- Some consonant sounds also changed, specifically becoming silent, the term Great Vowel Shift is occasionally used to include these consonantal changes.
- The standardization of English spelling began in the 15th and 16th centuries, the Great Vowel Shift is the major reason English spellings now often deviate considerably from how they represent pronunciations.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Great Vowel Shift article was read about 200,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 69 and blocks with 40: each hit it takes is cut by 16 %.
How to get Great Vowel Shift
Open packs. Each pack holds five cards drawn from real Wikipedia articles, the rarest last, and the fifth card is always Rare or better. The odds are shown in the game. A free pack arrives every hour and two can wait, and the Coins you win in duels buy more packs.
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Great Vowel Shift (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Goran tek-en, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons.
