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As Shakespeare wrote in As You Like It: And then, from hour to hour, we rot and rot / And thereby hangs a tale Which is wittier when you realise that hour was
by lainga 9y ago
As Shakespeare wrote in As You Like It:
And then, from hour to hour, we rot and rot / And thereby hangs a tale
Which is wittier when you realise that hour was pronounced like whore in his day.
- JacobAldridge 9y agoThe quote I learned about the Great Vowel Shift from was Henry IV, Part I. If reasons were as plentiful as blackberries, where the prof explained it was a pun because "reasons" was pronounced more like "raisins" in 1597.