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Certain words having different vowel pronunciations went through natural, unchecked pronouncing or spelling mutations, establishing themselves in the vocabulary due to the number of people using them, something which came to be known as the great vowel shift.

Words, spellings and pronunciations were mutated during writing, travelling, printing, reading and distributing, a phenomenon that created numerous irregularities and variations.

Example: The word name is pronounced nayymm, but earlier it was pronounced naam, having the same vowel and pronunciation as the word father.