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 (15[1])by (*) Otto Jespersen, who described how long (10[1])vowels (10[1])in this language broke from their spelling in a process he called the Great Vowel Shift. (10[2])The “Original (10[2])Pronunciation” dialect reconstructs the phonology of this language’s Early Modern form (10[1])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■