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Modern English - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Yod-dropping: The elision of /j/ in certain consonant clusters, like those found in "chute", "rude", "blue", "chews", and "Zeus"
      - Wine–whine merger from the reduction of /hw/ to /w/ in all national standard varieties of English, except Scottish and Irish.
      - Happy-tensing: final lax [ɪ] becomes tense [i] in words like happY. Absent from some dialects
      - In North American and Australasian English, /t, d/ are flapped or voiced to [ɾ] between vowels
      - Non-rhotic (/ɹ/-dropping) accents develop in the English of England, Australasia, and South Africa
      - Cot-caught merger the merger of /ɔ/ and /ɑ/ to /ɑ/ in many dialects of General American
    - - The foot–strut split: so that "cut" and "put", and "pudding" and "budding" no longer rhyme; and "putt" and "put" are no longer homophones
      - The meet–meat merger in most dialects: making the words "meat", "threat" and "great" have three different vowels, although all three words once rhymed
      - The lot–cloth split: the vowel in words like "cloth" and "off" is pronounced with the vowel in "thought", as opposed to the vowel used in "lot"
      - Initial cluster reductions, like of /ɡn, kn/ into /n/: making homophones of gnat and nat, and not and knot
- - - - Caxton's translation of the story of Troy
      - Poems of John Gower
      - Compositions of John Lydgate
      - "Death of Arthur" by Thomas Malory
  - - - Australian English
    - - South African English
      - Nigerian English
    - - Indo-Pakinstani English
      - Philippine English
      - Singaporean English
      - Indian English
    - - New Zeland English
    - - American English
      - Canadian English
      - Carribian English
  - - - Grammatica Liguae Anlicane (1653)
      - A Short Introduction to English Grammar (1762)
      - English Grammar Adapted to the Different Classes of Leaners (1795)
    - - Dictionary of Hard Words by E. Coles (1676)
      - Dicionarium Britannicum, a More Compleat Universal Etymological English Dictionary Than any Extant by N. Bailey (1730)
      - Dictionary of the English Language by S. Johson (1755)
- - - - Literary style
      - Functional style
        
        Belles-letters style
        
        Poetry
        
        Prose
        
        Drama
        
        Official style
        
        Newspaper style
        
        Publicistic style
        
        Scientific prose style
    - - Formal colloquial
      - Less formal colloquial