Some theories attach the cause to the mass immigration to the South East England after the Black Death, where the difference in accents led to certain groups modifying their speech to allow for a standard pronunciation of vowel sounds.
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Other theories
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Why would this lead to change?
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or by changing it in some way, perhaps by hyper-correction to something thought to be 'more English'.
