Shakespeare's accent
How did Shakespeare really sound? What were the accents of his actors at the Globe?
"They say their accents are somewhere between Australian, Cornish, Irish and Scottish, with a dash of Yorkshire - yet bizarrely, completely intelligible if you happen to come from North Carolina.
For example, the word 'voice' is pronounced the same as 'vice', 'reason' as 'raisin', 'room' as 'Rome', 'one' as 'own' - breathing new life into Shakespeare's rhyming and punning."
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