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Words like 'name', 'meet' and 'bite' are spelled the way they were pronounced around Chaucer's time, before the Great Vowel Shift quietly changed how English speakers said nearly e…
— David Crystal, The Stories of English
Of the world's roughly 7,000 living languages, a large share are spoken by only a few dozen or a few hundred remaining people, mostly elderly. Linguists estimate that at the curren…
— David Crystal, Language Death