The great vowel shift is complicit in the divergence of the pronunciation and spelling in English, not the loan words. Loaned or not, the «bite», «meet», «meat

The great vowel shift is complicit in the divergence of the pronunciation and spelling in English, not the loan words. Loaned or not, the «bite», «meet», «meat», «serene», «mate», «out», «boot», «boat», «stone», «day», «they», «boy», «law», «knew», «dew», «know» were pronounced differently before and after the great vowel shift. The GVS was a gradual process that encompassed several centuries and – in some dialects of English in Britain – the remnants of the pre-GVS pronunciation have persisted into today.