Historical precursors of this language experienced three distinct shortening processes resulting in trisyllabic laxness. The Brown Corpus and a Survey of this language’s Usage grounded a “Comprehensive Grammar” of this language produced by Randolph Quirk. Dialects of this language are separated by the Humber-Lune Line. This language’s grammar was studied by (*) Otto Jespersen, (-5[1])who described how long vowels in this language (10[1])broke from their spelling in a process he called (10[1])the Great Vowel Shift. (10[4])The “Original Pronunciation” dialect reconstructs the phonology of this language’s Early Modern form and is named in contrast to contemporary “received pronunciation.” (10[1])For 10 points, name this language whose spelling was standardized by Samuel Johnson’s dictionary. ■END■ (10[1])