01355383 Varieties of English and Cultures of English Native Speakers 04 | Page 21

Okay, to put it simple, during this couple of centuries, some
vowels changed the way they sounded while their spelling
remained the same.
And this added more complication to English, which had already
been complicated due to the previous foreign influences.
At least, the good news is now English sounds more like… English,
not German or French.