Is there a dictionary of sorts (like the Online Etymology Dictionary) that traces the pronunciation of words through history?

There appears to many books and academic papers written on the subjects of storic Linguistics and Phonetic Changes throughout history, but after spending a good amount of time searching there seems to be only discussions based on theories of how these changes occurred rather than actual historic pronunciation charts. It appears that as soon as pronunciation was recorded in dictionaries, they became much less changeable since simply having a pronunciation reference added a huge amount of stability to the various dialects. When a words pronunciation changed enough it would inevitably change the spelling.

This would be an interesting website for someone to create. There are big charts such as these palgrave.com/language/freeborn/site/pdfs... that describe the pronunciation of old english, but the authers of htese charts state that there is no way of knowing if the information is 100% accurate. They just make guesses based on words that are still in existence that they believe are pronounced the same.

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