The dialect in some isolated villages in the Chesapeake area are thought to
have retained some Elizabethan traits. So I have heard and do in part believe
it, as Horatio says.
Joel W.
On Jun 8, 2010, at 6:29 AM, Bob Whitmire <bwhitmire@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I recall reading somewhere, and I'm almost sure it wasn't DeePee
> Review, that if one were to have visited the Globe in Old Will's day,
> what one would have heard from the stage would have been very like
> current Southern U.S. I don't know if it was a disgruntled Confederate
> making this claim . . . I merely pass it along for what it's worth,
> which is somewhere next to nothing.
>
> --Bob Whitmire
> www.bobwhitmire.com
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> On Jun 7, 2010, at 7:48 PM, Joel Wilcox wrote:
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>> I'm sure it "reads" more intelligibly to the modern native English
>> speaker than it sounds. Of course, we're guessing at the sound of
>> English from those periods.
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