SolidGrue to No Stupid [email protected]English • edit-22 years agoDo the people in Reniassance festivals occurring in Britain also speak with faked British accents, or do they use faked French/Italian accents instead?lemmy.worldimagemessage-square116fedilinkarrow-up1433
arrow-up1433imageDo the people in Reniassance festivals occurring in Britain also speak with faked British accents, or do they use faked French/Italian accents instead?lemmy.worldSolidGrue to No Stupid [email protected]English • edit-22 years agomessage-square116fedilink
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink15•2 years agoSimply not true, nonsense made up by a journalist when they had some column inches to fill. Their “source” was the way Bostonians pronounce one single word
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink3•2 years agoTheir source is linguistic history. The English decided that the letter R only exists if it’s surrounded by vowels in the late 18th/ early 19th century. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhoticity_in_English
Simply not true, nonsense made up by a journalist when they had some column inches to fill.
Their “source” was the way Bostonians pronounce one single word
Their source is linguistic history. The English decided that the letter R only exists if it’s surrounded by vowels in the late 18th/ early 19th century.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhoticity_in_English