What about similar oddities in English?
(This question is inspired by this comic by https://www.exocomics.com/193/ (link found by BunScientist@lemmy.zip)) Edit: it's to its in the title. Damn autocorrect.

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[–] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

This also occurred in the middle of the Great Vowel Shift, a period when spoken English pronunciation was changing significantly.

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