I believe I was less confused not knowing what Shakespeare sounded like.

@oyamsbabe4028

4 жыл бұрын

Koonta me too. I got lost mid way 😞

@kevinzhang3313

4 жыл бұрын

Dont blame you. Comfort in knowing nothing. And you're fine with that in your life rather than aspiring for more, so be it.

@TheOldSchoolGamer93

4 жыл бұрын

The more you learn the less you know

@avzarathustra6164

4 жыл бұрын

@@TheOldSchoolGamer93 Arguably, that's a wise statement.

@sophiemae4119

4 жыл бұрын

Old School Gamer lmao

Normal people: Mom I'm hungry!! Shakespear: Let it be known to the birth giver that thy stomach consist of emptiness.

@JohanaFlores13

3 жыл бұрын

I staaaan :)))))

@brrruuuh8287

3 жыл бұрын

*My stomach Thy = your/your's

@Aaron-hq4bu

3 жыл бұрын

Shut up, pleb.

@brrruuuh8287

3 жыл бұрын

@@EpicnessYeet No

@dhnsh1843

3 жыл бұрын

Art thou fill'd with pangs of hunger

"thou hast" = you have sounds like the German "Du hast" which means "you have". Mind-blowing.

@googee3

3 жыл бұрын

It would sound even more similar back in the day. People living in the region of modern Germany replaced all the "th" sounds like in "this" or "the" with "d" during the 9th and 10th centuries (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_German_consonant_shift). This shift also affected Dutch and Scandinavian languages but not Icelandic, which like English, still has the th sound! Germanic English started after Rome got sacked in 410 and the Anglo-Saxons invaded Britain (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-Saxon_settlement_of_Britain).

@michaeltansey379

3 жыл бұрын

Etymology bro

@zcolney9215

3 жыл бұрын

It's not actually. You do know that you guys were more or less from the same tribes, right? Anglo-Saxons were Germanic tribes. You guys have the same ancestors.

@AP1455.

3 жыл бұрын

*Rammstein intensifies*

@Weazla-

3 жыл бұрын

A lot of English phrases are Germanic, like "that's good"

My mother grew up in a holler in southeast Kentucky and she swears that her grandmother spoke partly Elizabethan English, so isolated in the mountains were they. She would say "dee" for "die", "yarb" for "herb", money was "puss" ("purse?"). She was mocked by certain family members, and it wasn't until my mother went away to college that she realized that her grandmother was still speaking the English she had heard her parents and grandparents speak. Our family came to America from England in the early 1600s.

@ravenlord4

2 жыл бұрын

There is still something similar in the Outer Banks of North Carolina.

@Amare1919

2 жыл бұрын

The Appalachian and southern states persevered the Kings English of King George better than anywhere in the world. They were isolated from outsiders unlike the northern states. While at that time England was the center of the world and influenced by French and other migrants.

@andywilliams8540

2 жыл бұрын

Wow. Pretty cool.

@taterkaze9428

2 жыл бұрын

Early 1600s? Unlikely. You're most likely descended from the Borderlands migration of 1670-1730. The clue is Kentucky. The three earlier migrations didn't go there.

@debrawhite751

2 жыл бұрын

@@taterkaze9428 We were living in Virginia in 1609. My ggggggggrandfather was church warden for a county in Virginia. I do not know offhand what year we migrated eastwards.

He sounds like he's a mix between a drunk Irish man and a drunk Scottish man

@MCShvabo

5 жыл бұрын

That sounds like a good fun.

@CraftQueenJr

5 жыл бұрын

I’m reminded of a particularly bad joke now...

@pivo2k

5 жыл бұрын

I was thinking the same thing 👍

@mohammedfahad3564

5 жыл бұрын

Thegoodstuff I wish Americans knew that there are 1000s of accents in the uk and that Shakespeare’s accent was actually east Anglian/West Country (England). Search them up and listen to them

@WookieWarriorz

5 жыл бұрын

wut its nothing like irsh or Scottish, youre american arent you

Everyone's saying he sounds Irish, Jamaican, Welsh or even Dutch when we CLEARLY all know what he really is... He's obviously a pirate.

@infamyinfamy

4 жыл бұрын

haha a pirate accent is a west country English accent!

@ladybathshuamoshe1751

4 жыл бұрын

😭🤣😂🤣🤣🙏🏽😂 I can’t stop my self from laughing 😝

@Biggorgeousleo

3 жыл бұрын

эч ким кам көрбөйт

@rib_rob_personal

3 жыл бұрын

Yup I got pirate more than anything else lol.

@OoxBethany

3 жыл бұрын

Bristolian 😉

There's another video where two men do pieces of Shakespeare in the original accent/pronunciation and show how it completely changes the rhyming and often makes for puns and double entendres you wouldn't hear at all with modern accents. For instance "from hour to hour we rot and rot" (from As You Like It) with the correct accent ALSO sounds like "from whore to whore we rut and rut" and both fit perfectly with the rest of the dialogue. Very clever. Shakespeare obviously loved wordplay but you can't hear most of it now, *especially* not with the upper-class English accent that most people seem to think is the way Shakespeare should be done.

@ganmerlad

2 жыл бұрын

@The Anonymous Sir Backspace Yeah I do. kzread.info/dash/bejne/mYSg0tKhhJrUadY.html It's titled Shakespeare: Original Pronunciation by OpenLearn. The bit about old pronunciation bringing out rhymes and puns starts about the middle.

@katevgrady

2 жыл бұрын

Modern "hour" pronunciation + Shakespeare "hour" pronunciation = "I love bangin who-ers" -Frank Reynolds

@jh-ec7si

8 ай бұрын

That was the same David Crystal mentioned in the vid

@cejannuzi

5 ай бұрын

Good for you if you really think they figured out what the original accent(s) were.

I always remember our English teacher back in the 70s saying that English has changed so much since the Baird´s time that most of his jokes, innuendos and hidden meanings are entirely lost on today´s audiences. In other words, while today´s audiences like to think they are being culturally with it as they quietly watch the masterpieces being acted out, Elizabethan audiences would have been either laughing their heads off or drowning in their tears.

@sarahgraham4056

2 жыл бұрын

What does the expression laughing head off mean?

@clairenoon4070

2 жыл бұрын

I still laugh my head off or sob my heart out watching Shakespeare acted well.

@marknewbold2583

2 жыл бұрын

Country matters

@jaygandra

2 жыл бұрын

@@sarahgraham4056 it means you laugh so hard that you might do that thing where toss you back, or really since its just an expression. Just laugh really loudly.

@J.AlexiosLucullus

2 жыл бұрын

In the spirit of Shakespeare I swear that one day I will go to the globe theatre and watch a Shakespeare play whilst being completely hammered - that's what his target audience was.

Travel around the UK a bit and you’ll still hear some of these pronunciations in the regional accents.

@elsakristina2689

4 жыл бұрын

The Northern English accent I think still preserves the old pronunciation of "sleep".

@MaximumJoy

4 жыл бұрын

@@elsakristina2689 which Northern English accent? I have one and I've no clue what you're referring to.

@elsakristina2689

4 жыл бұрын

@@MaximumJoy the one in Lancashire

@MaximumJoy

4 жыл бұрын

@@elsakristina2689 which one? Preston, Chorley, Burnley?

@elsakristina2689

4 жыл бұрын

@@MaximumJoy Pendle

Ok, fine, but where are my egges?

@Sammie1053

5 жыл бұрын

France, apparently.

@Doctor_Straing_Strange

5 жыл бұрын

@@Sammie1053 cool I live in France.

@FoxyBoxery

4 жыл бұрын

Yur egges shaleth be inn Franse

@dr.davidwho4053

4 жыл бұрын

😄

@slayerslayer7623

4 жыл бұрын

What are egges? Do you mean eyren?

I didn't realize that studying shakespearian pronunciation would equip me to improvise in Pirate

@lyrebird9749

4 ай бұрын

Haha, yes and the reason (raisin?) we think of pirates speaking like that is because the golden age of piracy was in the mid to late 1600's, only a few decades after Shakespeare's death. Many English speaking pirates would have had accents similar to what is heard in the above video.

Our Shakespeare class was fortunate in that our professor got his jollies by explaining every, single dirty joke in the plays.

I spek no frensch Sounds like fuccin meme language No step on snek

@wegood563

4 жыл бұрын

Hello fren

@ladyostanza

4 жыл бұрын

🤣🤣🤣

@dfgfdgdfgfdg2902

4 жыл бұрын

@@wegood563 Hello fascist that got their sub deleted.

@bathwater8937

4 жыл бұрын

pp smol.

@sirandrelefaedelinoge

4 жыл бұрын

try again in English

Recipe for Modern English: 1) mix together Anglo-Saxon, Old Norse, Old High German and Norman French. 2) pour into cultural soup mix 3) gradually add in a 2:1 mixture of Latin and Greek 4) allow to simmer for about half a millennium while occasionally stirring the vowels 5) spoon out the spelling but leave the pronunciation to simmer for a couple more centuries 6) serve with a dictionary... :D

@bandotaku

7 жыл бұрын

So beautiful, I'm stealing!

@gabriellazavul3490

7 жыл бұрын

Nice recipe! Lol.

@theoderic_l

7 жыл бұрын

Will try at home next time : )

@iyayan_

7 жыл бұрын

Kids loved it, will make again.

@joeydaboss1001

7 жыл бұрын

Tal Sheynkman this is perfect

We still pronounce “says” as “sez” in North West England

@MerkhVision

3 жыл бұрын

That’s how it’s said in America as well, since American English was originally closer to Old Pronunciation.

@r4tc0r36

3 жыл бұрын

I still pronounce says as sez

@barnsleyman32

3 жыл бұрын

nah mate, we say sez, shakespeare said sehz with a long vowel

@patriciakeats1621

3 жыл бұрын

We says “sez” in Newfoundland.

@Wenjo936

3 жыл бұрын

You do what I say. I did what he sez. Never heard anyone say says

I went to the Shakespeare's theatre actors' reading (not acting) session of Shakespeare. They all read their part of Shakespeare with so much grace, but when they all started discussing what things meant, their understanding was similar level to mine. I thought they all understood very well because they read it so beautifully.

@Newfoundmike

Жыл бұрын

It's like the Bible every one interprets it different but it makes them feel good 🙂

so basically hundreds of years of English speakers cutting corners in spelling and pronunciation have essentially ruined any sort of play on words Shakespear had originally intended.

@KnzoVortex

4 жыл бұрын

Robert Sides Not cutting corners, evolving and then standardizing.

@rei6160

4 жыл бұрын

now we can't get his puns that's sad

@tyler9004

4 жыл бұрын

noxious seraph : (

@MCVessels

4 жыл бұрын

And our current puns have no reasons at all.

@calebsmith462

4 жыл бұрын

All languages are in constant state of evolution.

That old English is so Frisian, my goodness.

@namingisdifficult408

7 жыл бұрын

Bararo Interesting .

@Slashplite

7 жыл бұрын

I read that in the past English and Dutch could understand each other without a problem.

@GuerilleroX

7 жыл бұрын

Bararo so you want eiyres o egges?

@willemvandebeek

7 жыл бұрын

hear hear

@willemvandebeek

7 жыл бұрын

Eggs in Dutch is: Eieren

Just in England, British English is very diverse. Americans always think of RP (how the Queen speaks) or London "chav" ("innit bruv?"). But there are dozens of accents. Some sound Scottish, some even sound similar to this Shakespearean.

@abbyelectric

Ай бұрын

Shakespeare's accent sounds very West Country to me, with some Northern flavour to it as well. Very interesting that my own (admittedly diluted and amalgamated from living in different areas) somewhat received pronunciation was only on its way to becoming the basis of the language at the time.

It makes much more sense when a lot of these words are still annunciated and pronounced the same way in the the north of England. English dialects are very different between counties. In fact people can tell where people live by their accents in the next town only a few miles away. A lot of towns, villages have Norse village names ending in ham and by. We still say things like ‘nowt’

@richardreinertson1335

Жыл бұрын

As an American tourist, I stopped once in a fast food joint in Yorkshire. When I told the server my order, she squinted at my mouth, like she was having trouble understanding me. I used to love watching "All Creatures Great and Small" and listening to the Yorkshire accents.

@michaelstamper5604

5 ай бұрын

As someone born in South Yorkshire, may I just say "Ey up, ivvrybody. Ow tha doing? Y'oreyt? Avva champion day, wain't tha."

lord what should a man in these days now write? *E G G E S* or *E Y R E N*

@dru4670

4 жыл бұрын

I imagine the chiefs face 😂 like "shuteth upp your idiots faceth"

@Deathtome.

4 жыл бұрын

@@dru4670 I like your comment a lot. Just so you know. Shuteth upp never, please.

@alexanderje8336

3 жыл бұрын

Eyren still sounds like the Dutch "Eieren" today.

@anthonyrowland1170

3 жыл бұрын

The en on the end of eyren is an archaic way of expressing a plural. Henry VIII is quoted as saying "they drown like ratten (rats)" when he witnessed the Mary Rose warship sink. Shoo'n (shoe-en) was a common way of saying shoes long after the use of en had died out for most other things.

@SC-hk6ui

3 жыл бұрын

500 likes and nobody has pointed out the second word is still found in welsh. The oldest one is going to be eyren which is wyau in welsh. You can see that the "en" part is just there to mean more than one, and was added the danes and saxons, probably to help them trade in multiple eggs. That word is brythonic. The Egges is indeed from later settlers in england.

Is it just me, or did Shakespeare sound pretty Irish?

@crovear1

7 жыл бұрын

definitely me too

@Robobagpiper

7 жыл бұрын

I hear Cornish (as in the dialect of English, not Kernowek) or West Country. Or Tangier Island's dialect. Unlike everyone who heard a little of their own speech in OP, I hear none of my native Texas dialect!

@PinkBunnyCorporation

7 жыл бұрын

I can see now how American English developed so differently to British English. The first American English speaking settlers(set-lers or setl-rs?) came around the 1600s. This is over 100 years after Shakespeare sure, but still long ago from modern times to be sure. What I like is that we see how this earlier modern English split based on the enviornments they were in. In the English colonies, the language developed in isolation, developing freely. In Europe it was still being influenced by the exchange of language with Wales, Scotland and Ireland and other foreigners who spoke english as a second language and the influence of those other languages on English itself. Fascinating.

@Robobagpiper

7 жыл бұрын

No, Welsh, Scottish Gaelic and Irish are Celtic languages (Welsh is Brythonic; the others Goidelic). Old English is a West Germanic language of the "low German" variety - and this includes its decendents, including Hiberno-English (English as spoken in Ireland), Scots/Doric/Lallans, and all the other English dialects. English is as distant from Scottish Gaelic, Irish, and Welsh as it is from Romanian and Spanish. "Gallic" is an adjective that refers to the Celtic languages of pre-Roman France, whose precise relationship to the Insular Celtic languages is still debated.

@ferguscullen8451

7 жыл бұрын

Welsh, Scottish and Irish are Gaelic (or Celtic), but Old English is Germanic

From one of the pilgrims' songs: "Hast thou not seen, how thy desires ere have been" about 1620. We were taught to say "ben" not "been".

Great stuff! I love Shakespeare, once it opens up to you it's stunning. He must have encountered so many characters / dialects and accents travelling between London and Stratford upon Avon and you see it in the language. His character Holofernes in Loves Labours is a hilarious example of a language pedant. Shakespeare was a linguistic liberal, and he had a childish love of innuendo.

I have plenty of Raisins to post here.

@martiqueheisler5959

7 жыл бұрын

lol

@audreylamendola3340

6 жыл бұрын

+Horseygirl85 aye, I know you ;P

@martiqueheisler5959

6 жыл бұрын

+Audrey Lamendola Oh hey, you're that person who roleplays as Undyne in that G+ community! Fancy meeting you here lol x3

@audreylamendola3340

6 жыл бұрын

Horseygirl85 Yeah XD Guess we're both nerds xP

@martiqueheisler5959

6 жыл бұрын

+Audrey Lamendola So it would seem lol

It's also important to remember that no one ever actually talked like the characters in Shakespeare: in rhyme and iambic pentameter.

@namingisdifficult408

7 жыл бұрын

Neferpitou understandably.

@andrewsuryali8540

7 жыл бұрын

Not strictly true. Rhetoric is a lost art nowadays, but in a time before audio recording, people in public discourse needed a way to make their voices heard and remembered. If you thought politicians today don't sound like normal humans, the Romans who went to the Fora Romana had to listen to their politicians banter in perfect dactylic hexameter. Speeches and debates were a performance art back then. Politicians needed a way to convey their views in a way that would make it easier for listeners to remember and replicate, so the tools of the poets and minstrels also became tools for public speaking. This persisted for as long as the art of rhetoric was practiced in the courts of kings and nobles and in the plazas of republics and city-states. In the time of Shakespeare, increasing gentrification and the formation of a politically active middle class meant that many of the newly-minted bourgeois of Europe were also practicing rhetoric in, yes, iambic pentameter, in the salons and pubs and the studies. Poets and playwrights taught rhetoric classes for young gentry who needed the art to progress in life. We are of course talking about the top 10% of society here, but that's definitely not no one. People did speak in rhyme and iambic pentameter in proper circumstances, and Shakespeare reflects this to a great degree in his plays, though he did admittedly overuse the tools.

@gagaoolala9167

7 жыл бұрын

That's true, but because he put it into rhyme and pentameter, this allows us to match pronunciations. No-one thinks they actually spoke in rhyme all the time!

@RoboBoddicker

7 жыл бұрын

Shakespeare's characters only speak in verse for important "mannerly" lines of dialog. A good bit of the dialog is in plain prose.

@jasonmnosaj

7 жыл бұрын

The act of speaking is a lair that acts of the actor to speak.

'Eyeren?...eggs, in Flemish and in Holland also we say 'eieren'. I think, in early ages our language was far more simular.

Thank you. As a long-time Shakespearean actor, this was truly helpful!

when you fall off your house in minecraft 2:43

@anthonyp.3909

5 жыл бұрын

😂

@yourlocalplacebo3933

5 жыл бұрын

yes!

@FoxyBoxery

4 жыл бұрын

Lmfal

@gladyslopez1922

4 жыл бұрын

😂😂😂

@madmaddiegirl5424

4 жыл бұрын

Roblox*****

In my home dialect (kind of Flemish) we still say 'eyren' (written as eieren) for eggs. I find that kind of cool

@Arakhor

7 жыл бұрын

As I recall, the German for _eggs_ is _eier_. I've heard it said that Flemish is English's closest relative.

@stevekaczynski3793

7 жыл бұрын

Dutch/Flemish are supposed to be the closest major languages to English, Frisian the closest minor language. If you regard Scots as a separate language, and certainly some do, then it would be considered the closest language to English.

@Arakhor

7 жыл бұрын

I've always assumed that Lowland Scots was a dialect of English, like Danish. Norwegian ans Swedish are of each other.

@Parker8752

7 жыл бұрын

Lowland Scots evolved separately from modern English, but from the same root. With effort, somebody who speaks one could learn to understand the other. But then, linguistically the line between dialect and language seems to be based more on politics than on actual linguistics. Hence why one can have mutually intelligible languages (like the Scandinavian languages) and mutually non-intelligible dialects of the same language (like the Chinese "dialects").

@Philoglossos

7 жыл бұрын

Frisian, not Flemish xP.

Thank you for your effort in producing this and Publishing it. Help to bring me back to my love of Shakespeare of a youth

I’m English and this actually makes a lot of sense to me because in the area I’m from we pronounce “here” as “eyre” and it’s common to drop “h” from words. Also in parts of the north people say “ows thaa” for “how are you “

I'm allergic to grapes. I don't know the raisin why that is.

@minizksmi3947

7 жыл бұрын

Space Doggo ayyyyyyyeeee!

@operagirl0101

6 жыл бұрын

OI THIS IS SO SMART I LOVE IT

@michaelglass3906

6 жыл бұрын

Wow, you will seriously come up with any raisin to wine, won't you?

@markmauk8231

6 жыл бұрын

Michael Glass awesome :-D

@namingisdifficult408

6 жыл бұрын

Mark Mauk agreed

I just found out that my joke pronunciation of reasons as raisins was never a joke. I don't know whether to feel vindicated or angry about being lied to

@roseatdancingearthworms9642

4 жыл бұрын

Well... It was a joke. The original joke that the writer intended, innit? 😂

@kimmry9406

4 жыл бұрын

Some Northerners in england still pronounce it like that, it’s nothing new

@OnlyARide

4 жыл бұрын

Isaac Swanson i'm sure shaky shaky spear boy would have been proud

@phoebexxlouise

4 жыл бұрын

You mean it was always a joke and you just perceived this line accurately

@jamestheviking983

4 жыл бұрын

Isaac Swanson I pronounce it the same way as a joke and now I feel really weirded out.

This managed to make me interested in Shakespeare, which has never been my thing. Good work!

3:03 GREAT job. That's a VERY good sounding and wholly accurate impression of Olde English and what Shakespeare and others like him would have spoken and sounded just like from what I have studied and researched. Most people still have that exaggerated British play accent assumption of them

It's a pirate accent.

@magister343

7 жыл бұрын

Not exactly, but it closer to the stereotypical pirate accent than almost any other accent still used today.

@John_Weiss

7 жыл бұрын

Exactly. If you listen to David Crystal or Ben Crystal recite some Shakespeare in OP, it sounds like they're “talking like a pirate”. It's kind of amusing, really.

@13tuyuti

7 жыл бұрын

Shall I compAAARRRRR thee to a summer´s day

@MrDUneven

7 жыл бұрын

Great playwriter SheakspeAARRR

@RagingInsomniac

7 жыл бұрын

aaarrrrggghhhh

Me as a native german speaker, this Old English very reminds me of German. Knight - Knecht, Should - Sollte, Thou still existed - Like Du in german, Thou hast - You have are like Du hast - Ihr habt - This is all due to that german and english both are germanic languages and share the same roots.

@Morrigi192

7 жыл бұрын

Well, partially. As they say, English is half German, half Latin, and half French.

@dragoncurveenthusiast

7 жыл бұрын

Also a native German speaker here. I had the exact same thoughts. You can definitely see how Old English is more similar to German than modern English.

@VintageLJ

7 жыл бұрын

English is like 60% German, 30% French and 10% Britonic, so that makes sense.

@ScrubNigel

7 жыл бұрын

Half man, half bear, half pig. Manbearpig

@livedandletdie

7 жыл бұрын

VintageLJ, that isn't correct at all, it's 40% German 30% Romance, 20% Norwegian and a small mix of the rest. Britonic doesn't make up a lot of English, only Britonic word in English I can think of on the spot is Cider. Sistr. Other than that many words are so old that it's shared with all European languages, for instance Cook. Bad example but it's literally older than man and woman. It's so old that even Sanskrit has it. Brother should also be one of those old old words.

You are the best KZreadrs I have found yet. Really: thank you.

I love etymology! Just discovered your great channel. Very informing along with entertaining. Eyren is like German: Eier, hast is the same word in german. I would also love a comparison between old high german and the english counterpart.

Soh pepple ein duh oldaen tymmes werre freeae tu ecxperrimente wytth syntacx, spyellinge andde ein fayct duh wholle Einglyishe lyanguyagge...! Noe dedductiones forh badde sppellinges tdhen!!!

@abelardadebayor5642

5 жыл бұрын

Gteat!

@Pokemonleafmon

5 жыл бұрын

I wish school could work that way now

@cat7031

5 жыл бұрын

Unicorn Rose same

@programmingcafe7571

5 жыл бұрын

Nice

@AmazingErrChannel

5 жыл бұрын

Eim ahsooming thet auld Eenglissh saundéd lak thet *Thet explens Shekspeers graev was spell ed lak thet*

Sounds more like a heavy english west country accent than anything else imo. Cornish maybe.

@Wheres-my-toes-bro

7 жыл бұрын

OceanEmbers It has that cornish vibe.

@JRCSalter

7 жыл бұрын

It's the rhoticity. RP and most other English accents don't always pronounce R. Westcountry accents are some of the few that do. H is often dropped in Cockney and others, as well as in Westcountry accents. So just those two alone can make it seem very like a cyder drinking farmer.

@Robobagpiper

7 жыл бұрын

That's also probably why most Americans (except Bostonians) perceive OP as sounding more "American" than RP - because almost all of our regional dialects derive from the rhotic dialects from Britain, from before non-rhoticity had taken over most of the island, save for the West Country... and a couple of identical twins from Leith who wouldn't know a single word to say, if they flattened all the vowels and threw the R away.

@OceanEmbers

7 жыл бұрын

Ah, makes sense.

@kaitlyn__L

7 жыл бұрын

i actually moved from oxford to scotland a few years ago, and my Rs slowly all became rhotic. and my a in bath switched. and a lot of other little things like that, actually. so, "most of the island" isn't quite right! as rhotic Rs are the norm here

This video was so well put together that it made me quiver. Nothing gets me going like authentic Shakespearean pronunciations (except Chaucerian pronunciations!).

Hella awesome insight my man! I loved it all, ESPECIALLY Shakespeare!

We say "ah ya poor cratur" in Ireland if someone says they feel sick. We say cray-thur, as we have a difference from gaeilge between hard and soft T's and D's. So we can say "drop" with the d sounding like the 'th' in 'though'. The Irish name Peadar rhymes with lather. I found that some Americans I met while working couldn't hear the difference I made between three and tree, making the joke about "turty tree and a turd". With tree, I bite the t and say the r straight away. With three, my tongue rests against my top teeth and I breathe over my tongue. My fluent Irish speaking friend pointed out that these pronunciations, like with chinese or german to me, might sound like there is no difference to an outsider, and sometimes can't hear it enough to copy the sound. It made me surprised that there could be such a difference I didn't think about as we speak the same language. There's also a myriad of accents, and that just expands the whole scenario again :p ya poor cratur...

@RubixNinja

7 жыл бұрын

I thought that word meant whiskey xD

@jasperiscool

7 жыл бұрын

No, that'd be uísce beatha.

@VintageLJ

7 жыл бұрын

My Nan has a Munster accent as does the same, but so do my Gambian and my Nigerian friends. Weird, huh?

@SeanONilbud

6 жыл бұрын

Irish Missionaries.

@k.umquat8604

Жыл бұрын

[tʰ] for [θ]

His real name was Willy Wigglestick, but his PR guy said that wouldn't do him any good in the long run and changed it to the now familiar William Shakespeare.

@pergunnarvikmjlhus3597

6 жыл бұрын

Willy wigglestick?! To me, that sounds kinda nasty. A "willy" and a wiggeling "stick".

@Ben-rz9cf

6 жыл бұрын

Yeah man he'll shake his spear at you

@StormCOG

6 жыл бұрын

He had enough to shake a stick at.

@Mimi-mq2wj

5 жыл бұрын

Bargain Boondocker willy? That means dick you know

@aryyancarman705

3 жыл бұрын

looool

Fascinating about the vowel shift, sounds, words, spellings. Thank you

Very well researched and put together for ALL ages.

WOW. I understood *none* of this.

@vikklanministar8155

4 жыл бұрын

Me being forced to read romeo and Juliet for English

@dlb4299

4 жыл бұрын

So What Shakespeare's English really Sound Like? He could have read a few sentences.

@HotTakeAndy

4 жыл бұрын

Imagine if English wasn't your primary language.

@Dasbelg

4 жыл бұрын

@@HotTakeAndy well it isn't mine but i understood everything

@arnasarnas760

4 жыл бұрын

Omg get on my nerd level

So basically if we went back in time right now we would literally not be able to understand each other.

@thekaxmax

3 жыл бұрын

not without some work. Look up Original Pronunciation Shakespeare, it's entirely learnable.

@silvianaursu5275

2 жыл бұрын

as a German, I feel I'd have it much easier to understand the English language back then :D many things sound soooo German!

@progressionsessions99

2 жыл бұрын

i would say you would be ok up to like year 1600/1700

@garryferrington811

2 жыл бұрын

You can get that in Liverpool or Scotland.

@markfox1545

Жыл бұрын

Idiots who force the word 'literally' are hard to understand. 'I literally died' is a classic example. Wtf are they saying to me? You're a moron.

so in short they all talked with the strongest newfoundland accents ever to exist, gotcha

Thank you for teaching me and all your content your amazing!!

Yea cool story and shit but- Di-Did the guy get his eggs?

@patiencen1280

4 жыл бұрын

Shut up you idiotic cucumber.

@napoleonbonaparte8381

4 жыл бұрын

Aye speech Frencshe and non,he did non gett hies egges...

@Grumplebumple

4 жыл бұрын

He did get a dozen eyren though

@TVeldhorst

4 жыл бұрын

'Eyren' is actually understandable for a native Dutch speaker: we say 'eieren'.

@groggle_noggle3348

4 жыл бұрын

Rick Sanchez “What, you egg?” [He stabs him.]

It sounds like a russian speaking lithuanian trying to sound overly brittish without even knowing the orthography

@nomadenview

4 жыл бұрын

Ahahahahahaha

@nareshkumarn2088

3 жыл бұрын

This comment was done when there was no CoronaVirus

love the tongue twists. you are one of a kind.congrats.

My Bible app has the Great, Tyndale, Wickliffe, and Geneva versions. Those versions of the Bible have many different spellings of the same word, even in the same sentence! I find the challenge of understanding what is said to be very fulfilling for both heart and soul.

A classic example of a rhyme that does not exist in modern English is in William Blake's "Tiger:" "What immortal hand or eye Could frame thy fearful symmetry?"

@13tuyuti

7 жыл бұрын

Respect my authority!!

@Garrett1240

6 жыл бұрын

How do we know that for certain? Blake's heyday was what the early 19th century? That seems a little late for a pronunciation like that given early modern English was what ended that style of speak.

@Bartonovich52

6 жыл бұрын

I think it was a forced rhyme. That's the trouble with reading to much into rhymes for clues to pronunciation... even with a massive lexicon, we are still limited in creative expression if words have to rhyme perfectly. I wish I found some better sounds no one's ever heard I wish I had a better voice that sang some better words I wish I found some chords in an order that is new I wish I didn't have to rhyme every time I sang

@anoj06

6 жыл бұрын

Waat imortaal handery Cud freme thy fearful simaatery?

I'm not even a linguist and this fascinates me! Fascinating stuff!

@musicaltheatergeek79

6 жыл бұрын

Me, too! I don't even have an interest in languages, but I love learning. I accidentally stumbled upon this channel last night and can't get enough of it. He should be a teacher, if he isn't one already.

@ewthmatth

5 жыл бұрын

We use language everyday. Why would you have to be a linguist to find this interesting? :p

@mediocremaiden8883

5 жыл бұрын

Well, boola boola

@DiegoSita

5 жыл бұрын

I'm a mathematician and I'm also amused by this.

@Hasnain1F

5 жыл бұрын

That's because English is your mommy tongue. Dummy.

The tour guide stopped to point out Shakespeare's childhood schoolhouse. A young student remarked that school was easier during Shakespeare's time. The tour guide was surprised and asked why. The student responded; "because students didn't have to learn Shakespeare".

I love this! Well done! 👏

I'm learning german, and if you know some german (or other germanic language) you can unlock a lot of this older stuff, like how "eyren" reminded me of the german "Eier" (also means eggs) which is pronounced too similar to be passed of as coincidence.

@frankk2231

3 жыл бұрын

Interesting is thou hast = (mod. German) du hast

@YG0684

3 жыл бұрын

I live in the south west U.K. and most of us still talk like this lol. Especially my grandfather aha.

@shachi-kun2275

3 жыл бұрын

Bist du ein studenten?

@6515cg

2 жыл бұрын

In dutch we say eieren for the plural of an ei. It even keeps the plural “-en”!

@princessdiana1229

2 жыл бұрын

im a native english speaker who speaks both german and swedish and i noticed this as well! interestingly, the swedish word for egg is ägg. Eyren was the west germanic word which naturally evolved into English (noticable by how it's so similar to Eier in German), and an earlier form of ägg is what also gave English "egge" due to Norse contact with English speakers

Schools ruin Shakespeare. It was never meant to be read. It was meant to be watched and heard. Reading it makes it boring and you don't get the full effect of it. It's much easier to understand if you're watching someone act it, with emotions and emphasis behind it. Shakespeare is also easier to understand, and sounds much more normal, when spoken with country English accents, like Yorkshire or West Country, rather than RP.

@neilgriffiths6427

5 жыл бұрын

Eils the Daydreamer - Try reading Shakespeare out loud with a strong Lancashire accent - awesome! ;)

@gay_phoebe

5 жыл бұрын

I love watching Shakespeare's plays but I honestly enjoyed reading Macbeth.

@sagoo1346

5 жыл бұрын

The only times I've had it in class the teacher read it aloud. Some teachers understand, at least.

@Jessi-44

5 жыл бұрын

Actually, my English teacher made us act out the parts xD It was a lot of fun, being able to discuss what the words meant and acting it out.

@pbasswil

5 жыл бұрын

Eils wrote: 'Reading it makes it boring and you don't get the full effect of it.' Every individual will have their own opinion on whether reading ShSp bores them or not. Personally I find it interesting to be able to pause and look up anything I don't understand - that's the fun of it for me. When I see a stage production of it, I may grasp the story; but I don't have time to figure out all the turns-of-phrase, or the older words & usages. Also, in most cases I find the conventions of ShSp'ian acting to strike me as stilted & strained. For one thing, this is often an actors big chance to shine, with 'pinnacle' material. So they've usually _way_ over-thought it, and try too hard. :^/ Fantastic if folks enjoy the real deal on stage; but it isn't everybody's cuppa.

“Greetings. I am William Shakespeare, and I wishesh to speak to thee regarding thy automobile’s warranty.”

It’s funny bc the Shakespeare language was made so even the poor “groundlings” at the front of the stage were able to comprehend the play. These plays were literally basic as fuck and we look at them as the most high educational English lessons Shakespeare was a genius for his writing style in bringing plays to the masses by making relatable and easily understandable stories

I'd love to see you treat the British/American dialect split - there's a lot of misinformation out there in the same vein as "Shakespeare sounded like us"

@TheJarOfJam

5 жыл бұрын

Actually, American English is closer to old English than English English.

@redcell9636

5 жыл бұрын

@@TheJarOfJam I think it has to do with our multiple language influences from immigration in the beginning of the colonies. I think it is a combination of flatter pronunciation because of Italian, French, and german. French and German being more guttural than Italian, but italian is closer to latin. Then we have the Irish and a few scottish which can trace their version of the dialect to middle or old English and Celtic pronunciations and even some pragmatisms even though English is not a completely pragmatic language.

@jbearmcdougall1646

5 жыл бұрын

Americans speak a bastardised Irish.... Canadians speak with a Scots accent...

@CrazyForFrogs

5 жыл бұрын

@@TheJarOfJam no it doesn't. There are certain dialects in both the US and England which are more archaic. For example Appalachian in the US and West Country in the UK, but overall modern American accents are not more archaic.

@leahparsuidualc666

5 жыл бұрын

"British/American dialect split"? - As the Americans say: "Dose english ain't no spittin' english." - Where as what i observe let me wonder why (US)americans say that they speak 'english' isntead of 'american'; I mean let's be fair, 'american' is a 'Stir-it-up', that most of the brain power has to be used to translate the thranslation of the Translation of the … whatever that word meant in the first place, a.k.a. America-Only- -Syndrome, because Yes We Can (kill any Need for Grammar and Etymology in General); And put Always a smile on your face when you backstab a language … - USA! USA! USA! … the greatest trick? let it begone and make the world believe it never existed ... Don't worry … i have a smile on my face, yay!

2:37 you really missed a good opportunity to say 'vowel movement'

@deedeealltheway1

4 жыл бұрын

Hahaha

@accidentallyclickedthegodd5813

4 жыл бұрын

Nobody: Betacism: *childish pun*

@soldierside365

4 жыл бұрын

Such a shit joke 😏

@gonzalo4658

4 жыл бұрын

lmao

@miloelite

4 жыл бұрын

At least he said “vowel shit”, though admittedly “vowel movement” is much more clever.

People 500 years from now are probably gonna look back on Eminem like this...

@v.k5417

2 жыл бұрын

no

I’m happy that Spanish hasn’t changed all that much and I can understand (and appreciate the rhymes) of the classicals. The great ones. :)

@PP-mo8po

2 жыл бұрын

@Por Qué? Well, it takes no effort for me to speak Spanish as I’m a native, so I never thought about it that way. But now that you say it I must say you are right. It’s difficult. I’m learning German and it’s a pain in the ass

as soon as I saw "I speak no frenshe" I knew what was going down. Early modern English and the great vowel shift, here we go. shout out to historical linguistics. Also the reason this sounds so similar to Scottish and the like is because Scots English completely bypassed the great vowel shift because why not.

@taylorvanbuskirk8040

6 жыл бұрын

I'm hearing Scottish as well. Perhaps the Scots sound more like Shakespeare than the Queen.

@theo.archive

6 жыл бұрын

sound or sounded, and which Queen?

@lilliedawn7373

6 жыл бұрын

also eggs in french is oeufs

@adeline4610

6 жыл бұрын

Theo Yeh love this comment for some reason

@iainmchugh2001

6 жыл бұрын

It most definitely doesn't sound Scottish.

Eggs - Eyren! Dutch: eieren 😨🤯

@1337penguinman

4 жыл бұрын

English is actually Anglish. As in, the angles, a Germanic tribe. England is actually Angleland, the land of the Angles.

@tacosmexicanstyle7846

3 жыл бұрын

kzread.info/dash/bejne/oXqMk9CbdJbKhpM.html If you speak Dutch then you may be surprised at how much of this ‘interview’ in Old English you can understand

@martingarciaarvidson6684

3 жыл бұрын

Old English, Old German, Old Dutch, they are all germanic languages. That's why there will always be small similarities. You won't be seeing any french, spanish or italian people finding any similarities since they are all latin languages.

@montycubana951

3 жыл бұрын

Afrikaans: eier!

@GriesgramTV

3 жыл бұрын

German: Eier

What a rad video! Thanks for sharing!

2:42 when you take fall damage in minecraft

Your videos are always a treat to see in my notification box, keep up the great work!

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@maxmustermann-ie6ic

6 жыл бұрын

Justin Lebet 😂😂😂😂

@nategthepigeonlord2683

6 жыл бұрын

I 🅱️refer sprit

@rushildalal2974

6 жыл бұрын

I 🅱refer 🅱epis myself

@meetyomaker2396

6 жыл бұрын

Ahh a man of culture, ey?

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6 жыл бұрын

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That was fascinating! Thank you.

So cool! Thanks so much for the video!

It's insane how much I love this. Linguistics and the evolution of the English language has been an obsession of mine for as long as I can remember. It would be so wild to see a film set in the 15th century with accurate language (since it's rather unlikely that I'll be able to attend an "OP" performance anytime soon). I really hope that happens one day. Terrific video, and THANK YOU for making it!

@ruawhitepaw

5 жыл бұрын

Crystal's OP performances of Shakespeare are pretty close to your wish. You just have to travel to London to see it.

@evangelosnikitopoulos

4 жыл бұрын

There's the recent horror movie called "The Witch" set in 17th century New England

@shanesimpson4407

4 жыл бұрын

It’s not classic English but I couldn’t understand anything anyone said in Dogwood

@Beery1962

Жыл бұрын

Visit West Yorkshire. Some people there still use Yorkshire dialect (e.g. "Thee and Thou"), which is about as close to Early Modern English as you can get in today's world. Ralph Ineson, who plays the father in "The Witch", is from Leeds, which is why his 17th Century accent is so authentic (he's speaking in West Yorkshire dialect).

Irish, Scots, West Country and even some US accents preserve some pronunciation traits of Shakespeare absent from today's standard English.

@ferretyluv

7 жыл бұрын

That's a myth about American dialects. Southern Dialect does preserve some features from the 18th century Cavaliers, but not Shakespeare.

@miauaslano

7 жыл бұрын

Many US dialect are rhotic - a feature of Shakespeare's English - while many UK accents are non-rhotic.

@VintageLJ

7 жыл бұрын

I guess Standard English doesn't count parts of England then?

@stevekaczynski3793

7 жыл бұрын

No. Standard English, especially in its pronunciation. is mainly a variety of English with origins in the London area and perhaps also universities like Oxford or Cambridge. Dialects and accents from the North and West are quite different from it.

@stevekaczynski3793

7 жыл бұрын

I read of one "Everyman" performance from the Middle Ages which took place in the Midlands or the North. One character puts on a southern English accent to appear more sophisticated. Londoners may even have had trouble understanding the speech of people from Yorkshire or Northumberland - in his last work, "A Dead Man In Deptford", Anthony Burgess depicts Londoners assaulting a man from the north because his accent makes them think he is Flemish.

I remember taking an early-English literature survey course. The prof had everyone try to read aloud the first few lines of the prologue of Chaucer's _Canterbury Tales._ Everyone sounded more like Cheech Marin than an English person from the Middle Ages.

What I found interesting watching this was how much the sound of the language is similar to how some rural people in the west of Ireland sound speaking english today. Irish English has also retained a lot of the turns of phrase and some other parts of early modern English. You often hear 'ye' being used for the plural you too.

@lyrebird9749

4 ай бұрын

I would love for 'ye' to make a comeback. Almost every European language has a plural for you. Why not English? It can get confusing not having one. In fact, the lack of a proper English plural has prompted some to invent words for plural you:. In the US, people say "Y'all" (you all) as in "Y'all seem mighty nice people" while in Australia we have "Youse" for plural as in "Are youse coming to the pub?". These informal words only exist because there is no formal plural for you. I vote we bring back ye.

I live in the south west U.K. and most of us still talk like this lol. Especially my grandfather aha.

@jagdpanther1944

3 жыл бұрын

not for long...it is dying...but that is how we evolve

@elliykollek

3 жыл бұрын

you should record how they speak, that dialect is going to die, soon...

@dinosaurus598

2 жыл бұрын

@@elliykollek In like 10-15 years

@dinosaurus598

2 жыл бұрын

@TiKKO Guevara I'am not from the UK

@dinosaurus598

2 жыл бұрын

@TiKKO Guevara And stop spreading hate towards The English , not all them are insane a**holes that want the British Empire back.

I wonder what "fuck" will sound like five hundred years from now? 2000: Fuck 2100: Fook 2200: Fueck 2300: Fack 2400: Feek 2500: Fauk

@JuanDVene

7 жыл бұрын

Dr Shaym The consonants would probably change too. In Spanish, some words that used to have an "f" now have a soundless "h". So "fabular/fablar" became "hablar", "Falcón--->halcón", "foja--->hoja", etc. The "v" and "f" sounds, have also been known to switch. Also the "k" sound had been known to soften in many tongues, yielding sound like "ts, ch, or s". So maybe in the future it'll sound something like "vach" or "uhs". Who knows?

@GdotWdot

7 жыл бұрын

Just for fun, if I had to guess what would happen to General American based on what I can hear, I'd say this: /aɪ/ will become /aː/, /ɪ/ will become /ə/ like in Afrikaans, /ʌ/ will end up as /ɔ/, /i:/ will gradually move towards something like /e:/ or /ɪ:/ and plosives like /p/, /t/ and /k/ may start vanishing from some words (sometimes leaving a /ʔ/). Additionally something weird might be happening to /z/ but I'm not really sure what and I'd be very surprised if /d/ in between vowels didn't eventually end up always being some sort of /r/. So in 60 years 'fuck' might pronounced /fɔʔ/, or like 'fought' if someone vaporized you with a ray gun before you get to say the t. This is all of course wild speculation.

@xxXthekevXxx

7 жыл бұрын

fekk

@leebennett4117

7 жыл бұрын

Kevin Benoit. Drink,Girls,Fekk, That would be an acumenical matter,

@jessicalee333

7 жыл бұрын

Fuck. Fook. Fuke. Ficke. Wicke. Wikh (they might look back and giggle at our "Wikipedia"). Wegh. Maybe! But still spelled like "fuck" (or with only the c or only the k) and when people read older literature they won't realize how Fs used to be pronounced. "Aye, wegh ya, (r)Assle!" (adding a linking R they use in Boston and some English accents). I'd give that more like a thousand years though. Ubiquitous writing, standardized spelling efforts (and dictionaries), and sound recordings are bound to slow down the really wild changes languages have made in the past. Besides that though, it's hard to really say which direction things will go (I'd lean more towards "feck" as a near-future stage)... or if a word like "fuck" will even survive - though it has survived since the 14th century - originating from Scandinavian words for breeding, apparently.

nice one, i got into shakey at school, caught by the excitement of macbeth, with a little help from polanski, but it was only, many years later, when i read about the great vowel shift, that i really started to be able to hear him properly. i think the comment about how we all hear own accent in him is 100%, because all of us who speak english have retained some bits of shakespearean pronounciation!

Some of the old English words got taken to America where they still survive; like Plow for instance which was the old English spelling, yet here in England we now spell it Plough.

@gleggett3817

2 жыл бұрын

It starts in Old English as 'ploh' or 'plouh' so both plough and plow are logical.

Watching this as a Dutch woman is pretty damn interesting. It seems like my language made all the different decisions and that's why it's similar to English, but far from the same. Like you guys say egges or, well, eggs. We say a modern version of eyren: eieren

@handsomesquidward474

4 жыл бұрын

It's like our language has diffrent dads but has the same mom

@avzarathustra6164

4 жыл бұрын

@@handsomesquidward474 Lmao.

@avzarathustra6164

4 жыл бұрын

I would say it's the other way around, actually.

@StochasticUniverse

4 жыл бұрын

@@handsomesquidward474 Or rather, the same parentage, but made different life choices. One went to college, the other fell in with the rough crowd in high school. I'll leave it to you to decide which is which!

@dOVERanalyst

3 жыл бұрын

And we say Andaa...🤣🤣🤣🤣 It's funny how tons of languages have different names for the same thing

So early Modern English sounded like........Dutch?

@mohammedfahad3564

5 жыл бұрын

Robin Brown I wish Americans knew that there are 1000s of accents in the uk and that Shakespeare’s accent was actually east Anglian/West Country (England). Search them up and listen to them

@LogoFreak93

5 жыл бұрын

@@mohammedfahad3564 Ah, thanks for the information. It's true that we often don't recognize the subtleties of accents from outside of our own country. Similar to how people outside of the UK are unaware of the accents beyond the regional accents, I've encountered people who are surprised that the US has so many accents (for example, mine has been guessed as everywhere from "southern" to "New England" to "Canadian" to "Pittsburgh", with the last one being the closest).

@ninny65

4 жыл бұрын

Actually, old english and dutch were very similar, it's not anything to do with accents

@ninny65

4 жыл бұрын

Accents in England are largely created from some regions adopting and not adopting the new sounds from the great vowel shift

@LogoFreak93

4 жыл бұрын

@@ninny65 I noticed even today English and Dutch have a lot of similarities. One language I heard about that's slightly mutually intelligible with both English and Dutch is Frisian (although the west Frisian dialect is most similar, north Frisian is more like Dutch and east Frisian has a little German influence). I know there's a sentence that's the same in both languages, something like "butter, bread, and green cheese is good to English as it is to Frisian".

Thank thou for unlocking my new language, NativLang.

Much needed ...i am reading Tempest and King Lear.... It made my work easy

So, it sounded more close to how it's spelled from a latin perspective. Closer to how a french, or spanish, italian, ... would pronounce the words when they first encounter them . Sea is not SEE but Seh ah. Which is ..kind of logical .

@anabeatr1x

3 жыл бұрын

yh

@cult_of_odin

2 жыл бұрын

Where I'm from we still pronounce many words the same way. Like eat. My wife who isn't from where I am likes to laugh at the way I say it. Like et, or like the way I pronounce root like rut.

@brandonijames2784

Жыл бұрын

Why is it you say logical? Isn't it totally dependant on whatever language rules you follow or are accustomed too. Maybe your right. It's hard for me to wrap my head around all this as I speak only one language and not even that well 😂

"We all come as strangers to Shakespeare's sounds" Not if you're from the West Country!

This was fascinating. It would be cool to maybe take a page of script and do a deep dive analysis bridging future and past dialects.

Hi there! Informative because it shares how the language English has evolced since the time of William Shakespeare as his time was a milestone. Thanks & regards.

When my grandmother moved from the East End of London to Wiltshire during WW2, she was mystified as to why people kept ending sentences with what sounded like "doss-snow", using what I guess was a rising inflection because she realised it was a question. Apparently it was a contraction of "doest thou know?". As in "has the bus been dost-know?". That's pretty much died out now. Was it just a West Country thing dost know?

@christinalim494

4 жыл бұрын

That’s so cool!!

@ocd000

4 жыл бұрын

@@christinalim494 It's fascinating how the language seems to be changing but unlike science, not necessarily improving.

@RicktheRecorder

4 жыл бұрын

And of course ‘doest’ is pronounced ‘dust’, at least in Victorian English.

@troodon1096

4 жыл бұрын

@@ocd000 Change is directionless and is not necessarily either better or worse, when it comes to language. It just happens over time as languages continue to influence each other.

@chesterdonnelly1212

4 жыл бұрын

I live in north Wiltshire. The dialect has all gone now as far as I know. We have all been taught to use only standard English.

Omggg So Shakespeare was just reading how i used to when i started learning English! (ya know. when i didnt know what silent letters are. and just read out the words with letters i saw.)

@cheemsdog7662

4 жыл бұрын

queue has 4 of em! you only say q not qoo-e-oo-e

@alansmithee419

4 жыл бұрын

@@cheemsdog7662 I would think a q on its own would be pronounced like "ck" but maybe less harshly. The "cyoo" sound is the name of the letter, and does not represent how it sounds. I think queue has two silent letters: the last "ue" part (or maybe the middle two? But that would be absurd, much like the rest of English)

This just makes his wordplay all the more brilliant

So Shakespeare sounded like a pirate having a hangover

400 years later, English spelling still hasn't caught up with pronunciation changes. This all could have been avoided if we adopted Benjamin Franklin's spelling reforms.

@alexsmith5606

7 жыл бұрын

i agree, English orthography is way overdue for a reform. plus, foreign words and names should be changed to English spelling in order to avoid stuff like French words with 10 extra letter (all of of them silent)

@gordonsmith8899

6 жыл бұрын

AirCooledMan2006 the spelling reflects the history of the word. Modern US usage destroys that link: eg the past tense of "To Dive" is 'dived' not 'dove.' To Plead - past tense is 'pleaded' not 'pled.'

Shakespeare meant to be read in a welsh accent apparently

@lilguyonhiswaytothemall

5 жыл бұрын

Summerset accent my dude, I think, not welsh

@savedbygodsgrace.9058

5 жыл бұрын

That's not comfy is it.

@nigelsheppard625

5 жыл бұрын

More lije a Monmouthshire or Forest of Dean accent.

@13thcentury

5 жыл бұрын

Sounds like Hagrid.... I shouldn't have said that

@janfairclough6982

5 жыл бұрын

Rachelle Silver West Country

Shakespeare! the bane of every pupil attempting to understand old words spoken by most actors so quickly that it was incomprehensible.

You Sir, are the incomprehensible one . Shakespeare has nothing to worry about .