A couple of weeks ago, I did an “English language time machine” piece for The Week. This week, it’s up as a podcast, for those who prefer to listen:
What the English of Shakespeare, Beowulf, and King Arthur actually sounded like
A couple of weeks ago, I did an “English language time machine” piece for The Week. This week, it’s up as a podcast, for those who prefer to listen:
What the English of Shakespeare, Beowulf, and King Arthur actually sounded like
Posted in The Week
Tagged Anglo-Saxon, Breton, Brittonic, Brythonic, Chaucer, English, English language, history, Middle English, Old English, Shakespeare, The Week
Hop into a time machine to travel back in the history of the English language! How do you think it will go? Step out and talk with people from olden times who use quaint words and a bit of thou and –eth? Heh heh. Find out what’s really waiting for you as you travel back through the history of England in my latest article for The Week:
What the English of Shakespeare, Beowulf, and King Arthur actually sounded like
Complete with video clips!
(And yes, before you say it, “the English of King Arthur” is, shall we say, a trick question.)
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Tagged Beowulf, Breton, Chaucer, English history, English language, King Arthur, medieval, Shakespeare, The Week