Changes in pronunciation and spelling of English language throughout its history

Abstract

The following work is devoted to research upon spelling and pronunciation of the English language through the ages of its existence. The story of English consists of various events that affected itself as a reign of the Roman Empire, Anglo Saxon conquest, and so on. The periods of language are Old English, Middle English, and Present-Day English. OE (Old English) had a complex system of spelling with long vowels and diphthongs. Middle English had peculiarities of affixation and French, Latin dependence. As a material, we looked through the literature of those periods and compared the units with today’s equivalents.