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"...an ordinary 19th century family’s one book beyond the Bible (thousands of years old) might be Pilgrim’s Progress (about two hundred years old)." I think tha

"...an ordinary 19th century family’s one book beyond the Bible (thousands of years old) might be Pilgrim’s Progress (about two hundred years old)." I think that is part of the reason speech has changed. I am reminded of this snippet of dialog in the film True Grit. The language used sounds so archaic, even though the fictitious event is just over a century and a half old. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMPr9rchJMs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMPr9rchJMs

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Once you get used to the orthographical and grammatical changes, it's nice to dip into scans of originals from time to time, eg: (1623,en) Shakespeare https://iiif.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/iiif/viewer/?iiif-content=https://iiif.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/iiif/manifest/390fd0e8-9eae-475d-9564-ed916ab9035c.json#?c=0&m=0&s=0&cv=120&r=0&xywh=609%2C1490%2C3808%2C1678 https://iiif.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/iiif/viewer/?iiif-content=htt... (1608,de) Kepler https://www.e-rara.ch/zuz/content/zoom/13909860 https://www.e-rara.ch/zuz/content/zoom/13909860 (1588,fr) Montaigne https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k11718168/f15.item https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k11718168/f15.item