To inaugurate my Mastodon account, here's a repost of my most popular tweet to date. 😋
How did English sound 1100 years ago?
Of course we'll never know for sure, but linguists have been able to reconstruct the pronunciation of Old English to quite an extent.
Here's me reading an excerpt from a 10th century riddle using this reconstructed pronunciation:
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@yvanspijk very cool! Of course I understood nothing without looking at the translation.
