Early Modern English

Hello,

Here's a very interesting webpage I stumbled across whilst looking for information about how English would have been spoken around the time of Shakespeare. It is a fairly long article that traces the origins of modern English, and how things like the Great Wovel Shift (ie. the difference that seperates Middle English from Modern English) came about, and it's worth a read (or a skim, depending on your preference). But it gave me an idea about how Shakespeare's lines would have sounded in their day. (And I learnt a couple of new terms along the way.)

http://www.thehistoryofenglish.com/history_early_modern.html


-- Idil