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PERMANENT JOURNEY RECORD / 751

COMPLETE ROUTE ↗
STAGE 06broadNO SINGLE PIN

fend, feend, feinde, and fiend

Early Modern English record

fēond DOSSIER ↗
THE REVIEWED ROUTE CLAIM

OED records competing long and short vowel pronunciations and extensive spelling variation before the long vowel becomes dominant by the eighteenth century.

COORDINATES STORED
NO
HONEST TO PLOT
NO
PLACEMENT MODE
broad
TIME PRECISION
range
NUMERIC TIME BOUND
YES
CLAIM CITATIONS
1
THE TEMPORAL CLAIM

THIS STAGE ENTERS THE TIMELINE.

The interval summarizes documented form and pronunciation competition without asserting one universal transition date.

PLACE IN GLOBAL CHRONOLOGY ↗
DIRECT STAGE-LEVEL PROVENANCE

AUDIT THE ROUTE CLAIM.

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    Oxford English Dictionary — fiend, n., revised 2026

    Documents long-versus-short vowel competition and the eighteenth-century dominance of the long vowel.

    Later development and historical formsAUDIT SOURCE ↗