Hello, friends. I've had a copy of David Crystal's The Stories of English for a long time now, but never managed to get around to reading it. That's about to change. Today, I came across a fascinating article about what English accents used to sound like. In it, linguist Gretchen McCulloch explains that there was a major shift in English pronunciation during the late eighteenth century. Because … [Read more...]
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