Sunday, December 21, 2003
How was Elizabethan English pronounced? Most passing strange. It does not sound like modern day upper-crust English, as you might assume from the movies. It sounds like a cross between Middle Atlantic American and a Scottish burr. Further differences between Elizabethan and modern pronunciation are suggested by the rhymes: all-shall; racks-takes, steel-well, join-shine, seas-press (although rhymes are not invariably correct tests of pronunciation).
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