> Part of it's that we had entire accents and styles of speech that were once common, that are now all but gone, a century or less later. Language is constantl

> Part of it's that we had entire accents and styles of speech that were once common, that are now all but gone, a century or less later. Language is constantly changing, but it's only in the past 100 or so years that we've had the technology to make audio recordings. Linguists seem to have a pretty good ability to reconstruct older pronunciations but of course they can't capture every detail with certainty. There is an original pronunciation movement[0] in Shakespearean performance that can convey a sense of it. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shakespeare_in_Original_Pronunciation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shakespeare_in_Original_Pronun...