How English sounded 500 years ago...

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How English sounded 500 years ago...

Postby Shiyonasan » 9 years ago

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.
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Postby Tetsuwan Penguin » 9 years ago

While you're at it, there is this funny, tounge in cheek, history of the lanugage
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