The Great Germanic Sound Shift
Long before English vowels did their famous shuffle, a far more ancient and dramatic event rocked its linguistic family tree. This was the Great Germanic Sound Shift, a systematic chain reaction of consonant changes, first codified by Jakob Grimm, that forever distinguished languages like English and German from their cousins like Latin and French. Dive into the story of how a `p` became an `f`, a `d` became a `t`, and how your `foot` is related to a `pedicure`.
