Is "Semitic" a language, or an adjective to describe people? I thought the language was "Hebrew". --
Bignose
Semitic is a language family, including Hebrew but also Arabic and several other languages, of particular note here being Phoenician, which is what the first alphabet was developed for.
The characters given for Epsilon don't display on my browser, but that's perhaps not surprising as I don't have a Greek font installed. However, surely six characters aren't required to display one Epsilon? --
Bignose
Is the "Great Vowel Shift" something that is easily recognisable to linguistic experts? If so, please make an article (if only a stub); if not, please rephrase to something else (perhaps with a link). --
Bignose