Let us have a reckoning - pre-modern casual English

[Clint_L]

Do we? I don't think I speak like people 400 years ago, and I'm pretty sure nobody I know thinks that. I don't think I speak like people 5 years ago, let alone 400 years ago.

I should have clarified - I meant that we people in North American assume that folks in England speak a "truer" version of the language that has diverged less.

 

[MNblockhead]

I should have clarified - I meant that we people in North American assume that folks in England speak a "truer" version of the language that has diverged less.

How Americans preserved British English

Americans today pronounce some words more like Shakespeare than Brits do… but it’s in 18th-Century England where they’d really feel at home.

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