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This tag is for questions which a dictionary cannot answer about the sound, intonation, and stress of how words are uttered or produced.

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Why is the pronunciation of the O in "move" different from in "bone"?

PRONUNCIATION (using IPA and simple diacritic) So many words were changed in pronunciation during the Great Vowel Shift (see PHY117 - The Great Vowel Shift by Prof. Jürgen Handke 6:32). … Other explanations of pronunciation is the spelling indicated the pronunciation differently to today - "blood" for example has double 'o' to indicate a long o /ō/ instead of the "magic e" - /b-l-ō-d/ NOT …
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