Comments by "Big Blue" (@bigblue6917) on "The Great Vowel Shift and the History of Britain." video.

  1.  @susannagarlitz792  Interestingly during WW2 many Americans stationed in England had difficulty understanding many local dialectics with the reverse also being true. There is a shop near an American airforce base in England which has a sign in the window which read, English Spoken American Understood.
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  2.  @rogerwhittle2078  I did read that the official language for India is a form of Sanskrit which is rarely if ever used. The unofficial language is English.
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  3.  @rogerwhittle2078  Me too
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  4. There is a nursery rhyme the first two lines of which are 'Ride a cock horse, To Banbury Cross. Obviously horse and cross do not rhyme. But, until more recent times, in the north of England horse could have been pronounced like cross by some people. Which could suggest the horse was pronounced like cross elsewhere. The term used for villages abandoned at this time is Deserted Medieval Village, or DMV. Not all DMVs became deserted at this time. Many struggled on but suffered from a declining population before finally becoming abandoned. Wharram Percy, North Yorkshire, did not finally become abandoned until just after 1500. In some cases two villages may have had populations too small to be viable on their own. So the people from one village would move to the other village. There is also the Shrunken Medieval Village. Villages which shrank but were still big enough to be viable. A local village, Wayne, East Yorkshire (pronounced worn) is one such village. There are over 3,000 known DMVs sites, most of which are in the north of England.
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