Comments by "MilesBellas" (@MilesBellas) on "The Great Vowel Shift and the History of Britain." video.

  1.  @allanrichardson1468  Knight in old English was pronounced as K-Night or K pop .....not Nite....... that's the joke "The silent 'k' in words like 'knight', 'knock' and 'knob' is a remnant of Old English, and wasn't silent at all but was pronounced along with the 'n'. Nobody really k-nows why or when it became silent but this change is believed to have transpired sometime around the 16th to 17th centuries. For some reason the 'kn' consonant cluster became hard for English speakers to pronounce. Perhaps it's the result of foreign influences; after all, England began colonizing the world at a large scale around this time. This phenomena is just one of those mysteries of English language development -- along with the Great Vowel Shift. "
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  2. 14:05 "backwater vassal of the French" ??? Mon œil
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  3. The Great Vowel Shift is credited for inspiring the "Knights Who Say "Ni"" Terry Jones had a degree in history and wrote a book on Chaucer.
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  4. 14:05 "vassal" ? In 1428 England controlled most of France.
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  5.  @vincentlefebvre9255  Off topic. Point is.... Brirain wasn't really a vassal to France at that time. Obviously all European monarchies are connected and sometimes cooperative, but Britain was not subservient at that time, correct? "A vassal is a person regarded as having a mutual obligation to a lord or monarch, in the context of the feudal system in medieval Europe. The obligations often included military support by knights in exchange for certain privileges, "
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  6.  @vincentlefebvre9255  These are really interesting, quick and informative. youtu . be/KUbTMNveRQU (no spaces)
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