PERMANENT JOURNEY RECORD / 763
COMPLETE ROUTE ↗STAGE 05broadNO SINGLE PIN
competing long and short vowels
Early Modern English record
fiend DOSSIER ↗OED reports both long- and short-vowel pronunciations alongside spelling variation before the long vowel becomes dominant.
- COORDINATES STORED
- NO
- HONEST TO PLOT
- NO
- PLACEMENT MODE
- broad
- TIME PRECISION
- range
- NUMERIC TIME BOUND
- YES
- CLAIM CITATIONS
- 1
THIS STAGE ENTERS THE TIMELINE.
A documentary interval for pronunciation competition, not one universal sound-change date.
PLACE IN GLOBAL CHRONOLOGY ↗DIRECT STAGE-LEVEL PROVENANCE
AUDIT THE ROUTE CLAIM.
Every source below identifies its exact stance, locator, and evidentiary contribution.
- supports
Oxford English Dictionary — fiend, n., revised 2026
Documents long-versus-short vowel competition in early modern English.
Later development and historical formsAUDIT SOURCE ↗