I recall reading somewhere, and I'm almost sure it wasn't DeePee
Review, that if one were to have visited the Globe in Old Will's day,
what one would have heard from the stage would have been very like
current Southern U.S. I don't know if it was a disgruntled Confederate
making this claim . . . I merely pass it along for what it's worth,
which is somewhere next to nothing.
--Bob Whitmire
www.bobwhitmire.com
On Jun 7, 2010, at 7:48 PM, Joel Wilcox wrote:
> I'm sure it "reads" more intelligibly to the modern native English
> speaker than it sounds. Of course, we're guessing at the sound of
> English from those periods.
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