SolidGrue@lemmy.world to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-21 year 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-square109fedilinkarrow-up1423arrow-down120file-text
arrow-up1403arrow-down1imageDo 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@lemmy.world to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-21 year agomessage-square109fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareMr_Blott@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up15arrow-down5·1 year 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-squareshottymcb@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up3·1 year 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