Episode 159: Elizabethan Voices
The History of English Podcast
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The History of English Podcast is a podcast about the history of the English language. In this episode, we turn our attention to the sound of Elizabethan English. Beginning in the late 1560s, several scholars attempted to describe the way words were pronounced in English. They even developed an early phonetic alphabet to represent the sounds of the language. Those works allow modern linguists to trace the evolution of English pronunciation during that period.
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