Re: Languages (OT?)
- From: Millerfairfield@xxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2005 06:07:22 +0000 (UTC)
In an interesting post James W Cummings wrote:-
<I don`t quite understand how We
<are to know with any hope of precision whether or not American, Australian
or
<modern British is closer in pronunciation to Anglo Saxon, late Medieval
Court
<English (ie between 1400-1500 ) , Elizabethan (abt 1560- 1605) or later
<forms or even of which classes it is supposed these dialects actually do
derive
<from
<snip>
Although the subject is perhaps only very peripherally relevant to medieval
genealogy, I would offer the following remarks:-
1) There is no such thing as "modern British pronunciation": travel round the
British Isles with your ears open, and you will easily be able to identify at
least 20 very different ways of talking, mostly regionally based; there are
marked differences of vocabulary as well as of pronunciation
2) If that is true today, it would surely have been true that even stronger
and more more numerous dialects would have been used in the earlier periods
mentioned by JWC. The London playwrights of the 17th century had much fun with
the rustic accents of their countrymen
3) Colonists of the west coasts of what are now the United States came from
many different parts of the British Isles, and doubtless took their native
dialects with them
.
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