Shakespeare is only comprehensible because English spelling has fossilized to not resemble the spoken language. There's a ton of rhymes and puns in Shakespeare'

Shakespeare is only comprehensible because English spelling has fossilized to not resemble the spoken language. There's a ton of rhymes and puns in Shakespeare's writing that are just not there anymore in modern pronunciation. https://www.britannica.com/video/187707/David-Crystal-pronunciation-Ben-Elizabethan-English-British https://www.britannica.com/video/187707/David-Crystal-pronun... for how it would (probably) actually have sounded like. Pretty hard to understand!