Colonial Williamsburg has a pretty enjoyable podcast they release each week on colonial-era life and culture. In January, they did an episode on the linguistic divergences between the colonies and Britain, and then they talk about some of the Chesapeake Bay islands where the 17th-century accent has ossified. (Download here)
I downloaded another podcast recently where a professor read some Chaucer in the original Middle English accent. It sounded very weird; the vowels were wrong. :)
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Date: 2011-03-14 01:04 am (UTC)I downloaded another podcast recently where a professor read some Chaucer in the original Middle English accent. It sounded very weird; the vowels were wrong. :)