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the modern English accent would sound completely foreign to the English of the 1700's The accent on Tangier Island in Virginia[1] is said to be the closest liv
by rhizome 9y ago
the modern English accent would sound completely foreign to the English of the 1700's
The accent on Tangier Island in Virginia[1] is said to be the closest living pronunciation to Elizabethan English, and based on that I think some mutual understanding could be wrangled.
1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIZgw09CG9E https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIZgw09CG9E
- tlarkworthy 9y agoI heard it was Geordie https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geordie https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geordie Here is an example:- https://youtu.be/yX8qgW8rGbw https://youtu.be/yX8qgW8rGbw
- rhizome 9y agoI believe the situation is that Geordie has the pedigree, that there's a continuous line back to the olden times, but it has evolved to a greater degree, and through forks in coal miner culture (see: Pitmatic[1]) and other professions of the area. Tangiers seems special because, as the story goes, it was essentially a transplantation of the 17th century accent, a hard fork, which evolved to whatever degrees in isolation. I don't know if I should soft-pedal this as much as it is in Wikipedia, but I've had an ear bent for both of these regions for 10-15 years and this is my sense of both. Naturally the truth is likely somewhere in between. (IANA Dialectician, just a part-time sound and language aficionado) 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pitmatic https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pitmatic