James’ Recitation

by Gary on February 22, 2007

James’ Recitation
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janice February 23, 2007 at 7:37 am

Pretty cool, James!

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micahjw February 23, 2007 at 9:36 pm

How long did it take you to get the pronunciation (and to do it all in order)?

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Gary February 23, 2007 at 9:47 pm

How do we know how they pronounced things back then?

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James February 24, 2007 at 10:16 am

I’m not sure how moderns are certain of the pronunciation of Middle English, though I would venture to guess that some of it was determined through Middle English poetry, since poetry has a certain meter for its lines. It didn’t take me too long to figure out the pronunciation, but I was probably more excited about learning it than most 🙂

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