How English sounded 500 years ago...
Posted: Mon Oct 05, 2015 9:05 pm
English sounded quite different in the 16th century. In this YouTube video, a person speaks a poem from that time period with the same dialect and speaking patterns they would've had back then:
John Skelton's "Speke Parott"
You can start hearing the Middle English around the 30 second mark. You can hear familiar words and phrases, but it sounds quite different.
John Skelton's "Speke Parott"
You can start hearing the Middle English around the 30 second mark. You can hear familiar words and phrases, but it sounds quite different.