Trisyllabic laxing
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Trisyllabic laxing
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Trisyllabic laxing, or trisyllabic shortening, is any of three processes in English in which tense vowels become lax if they are followed by two or more syllables, at least the first of which is unstressed, for example, grateful vs gratitude, profound vs profundity. By a different process, laxing is also found in disyllabic and monosyllabic words, for example, shade vs shadow, lose vs lost.
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Historic vowel shift
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trisyllabic_laxing
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2024-04-07T03:58:03Z
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