What Did Medieval English Sound Like?



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37 Comments

  1. Some inconsistency here. She says pronounce all the vowels and as an example 'wife' which she then goes on to pronounce as 'weef'. So,what happened to the 'e' at the end? The problem is that once you start making simplistic blanket 'all-you-have-to-do' generalisations about middle English you end up talking nonsense.

  2. nay, thou foolish wormeth! 'tis the very delicacy my mother fashionest and createth inside of the kitchen-chamber when i am physically afflicted and mine own tastebuds art barely activatedst!

  3. buddy thats not french pronunciation, thats germanic pronunication.
    also your G is weak. its kniGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGt like youre choking on a piece of pop corn

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