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YouTube link of a man reciting Sonnet 116 in Received Pronunciation followed by original pronunciation.
The weirdest part of all this is that OP sounds like someone who spent 20 years in rural Ireland and followed them up with 20 years in rural West Virginia... something that sounds like hillbilly and yet it's some of the most enduring and erudite English in the world.
The weirdest part of all this is that OP sounds like someone who spent 20 years in rural Ireland and followed them up with 20 years in rural West Virginia... something that sounds like hillbilly and yet it's some of the most enduring and erudite English in the world.
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Date: 2011-03-14 12:31 am (UTC)Which is odd, considering Shakespear was a Warwickshire boy writing in London and our regional accent differences are still marked today and would have been even stronger back then.
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Date: 2011-03-14 01:01 am (UTC)Most definitely not Irish, though. The nearest to Irish I could get is when I lapse into a Somerset accent and I try very hard not to, because I speak with an Irish accent, and I sound like I'm taking the piss. (My husband remains deeply amused, particularly thanks to my habit of saying "thank 'ee" - in my Irish accent! - when we're on his home turf.)
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Date: 2011-03-14 01:09 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-03-14 03:17 am (UTC)