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A Conversation in Medieval English | LONDON 1399

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- I interview a speaker of Middle English. He speaks the London dialect from around 1400. This is what English sounded like before the Great Vowel Shift and before a lot of Latinate vocabulary entered the language during the Renaissance. It's based the English of Chaucer with a few embellishments of my own.

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