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May 1st, 2014, 12:04 AM | #1001 | |
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Even if it were true, I for one ain't gonna start reading sheakespeare using an inner voice that speaks like ruddy John Wayne.
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The British settlers were mainly Puritan, many of them from the south of England - so unless there are currently non-Amish enclaves full of 'thees' and 'thou's' it seems most unlikely. Our regional accents over here are being eroded at an alarming rate - there's a dreadful introduction of lazy pronounciation, which takes the utmost delight in losing consonants, a perverse dedication to using the word 'like' as a form of gratuitous punctuation and the unwelcome creeping introduction of US terminology, mainly from pop culture - hip hop and west coast vacuuousness. All this coupled with the insidious influence of Estuary English via the television, we'll all end up sounding like ill educated halfwits. We live in a society seemingly embracing the opportunity to dumb down. Innit? |
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The Pilgrim Fathers came from Nottinghamshire , is the Notts accent heard in New England?
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So, they would've had accent like the actor Sean Bean. Entirely different from the Southern accent. Blame the movie industry for that common misconception. Apparently the cult series Game of thrones has quite a few Northern accents in it. And again a misconception,in that the settlers came from the south,in fact, most of the original settlers came from the North and Midlands of England.
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There was a programme on the History channel recently called "how the states got their shape" and one of the programmes was on accents. There is an island off the Carolinas where the inhabitants speak English as spoken by the original English settlers to that area, they sound west country to me. As for the pilgrim fathers lets not forget they werent the first English immigrants to the new world, and does the Boston accent sound like an east midlands accent???
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There was a production of Romeo and Juliet at the Globe in London, in the "original pronunciation", what is as close as scholars are able to get to the sound of Shakespeare's English as he would have spoken it. There's a good video, which describes what we know of "Original Pronunciation" (eg Shakespeare's) sounded like: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPlpphT7n9s They discuss sources for these opinions. For instance, how do we know that speakers of the time pronounced the "R" the way Americans (or some Scots and Irish) do? One source is contemporary commentators on language -- Ben Jonson, for example, wrote an English grammar in 1623 (revised 1640) which tells us things like that you can hear the final "r" at the end of a word (eg "heer" not "heah") |
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I studied Medieval lit at university, and in one class we were expected to read the texts aloud in the correct accent.
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May 2nd, 2014, 01:40 PM | #1009 | |
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May 2nd, 2014, 01:45 PM | #1010 |
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Call me a pedant if you wish, but please can you remember that England and Great Britain are NOT the same thing!!!!
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