SolidGrue to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.worldEnglish • 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-square115fedilinkarrow-up1432arrow-down120file-text
arrow-up1412arrow-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 to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.worldEnglish • edit-22 years agomessage-square115fedilinkfile-text
minus-square@Mr_Blott@lemmy.worldlinkfedilink9•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@shottymcb@lemm.eelinkfedilink3•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