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What Did Medieval English Sound Like?

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Nowadays, this is what English people sound like when they're really drunk!
Comment from : @GalifraianDoctor

Ye that but without that american accent
Comment from : @TomGerin-g6o

So just a drunk Scottish person’s interpretation of English😂
Comment from : @thesilentonejg524

Such bull crap
Comment from : @قريهكلاش-غ3و

Jesus you old hag that was horrible
Comment from : @chuckgreen6261

To me, as a Latin speaker, Medieval English sounds much better than modern English, not to mention it seems much more accessible
Comment from : @gedanst1

So in other words just talk Stpd
Comment from : @donkeylong7707

Sounds very viking-ish
Comment from : @whiteeyedsh4rk697

Oh sorry 😂 😂😂😂
Comment from : @anntahhan8930

It sounds straight out of that Irish show
Comment from : @ghadaelmeri3790

Wouldn't the Lord's Prayer in the 14th century have been the Pater Noster and recited in Latin?
Comment from : @silverjohn6037

today dey say dis an dat an dem
Comment from : @mrmansion3660

She pronounces "house" exactly as a norwegian would
Comment from : @campusmartius8450

So liverpool
Comment from : @effyouceeekay

You don’t know that… I wish people would say… “This is what I Think”
Comment from : @tomtrahan8485

Just your opinion…
Comment from : @tomtrahan8485

thats so close to dutch
Comment from : @pear7869

AYYYVILLLLLL
Comment from : @dani2599

I just wish they use old English when making games or tv shows in the medieval period It would be so immersive
Comment from : @SirForwyn

because at the beginig of anglo-saxon¨s lenguage french was the main contributor
Comment from : @pablozubiaurre585

So basically borat with a speech impediment?
Comment from : @Jack-rp6zy

Like it or not, there's also a lot of German
Comment from : @tomislavmihalic5283

Watch The Vikings and it'll explain so much
Comment from : @ZkullKruzher

Reminded me of the " what your laughing for I'm being serious" English guy
Comment from : @nadahaitham8388

Not to be rude, it sounds bad but sounds right
Comment from : @ZetsunaBlacklimit

Sounds a lot like Swedish lol
Comment from : @tweak_squeak

She’s has no idea
Comment from : @fncr070

oh my god Monty python and the holy grail was right all along
Comment from : @Greenteeth21

Oh you mean afrikaans 🤣
Comment from : @GaborSzitas22

Sounds Scottish
Comment from : @JoshAlicea1229

Maybe for the nobility, but what did it sound like for peasant folk?
Comment from : @sub7se7en

Does anyone really know how folks used to talk? Is it an educated guess based on writing? I can read French and Spanish, so I could basically read Portugues before I ever heard it talked My educated guess on pronunciation was WAY off
Comment from : @EricPierce-n8y

Sounds like Dutch
Comment from : @troyhackney148

the vowels pronounciation is how we portuguese pronounce in our language,
Comment from : @Luzitanium

Doesn’t matter in few years you will speak Pakistani language 😂
Comment from : @sumitshekhar467

Crazy how it sounds almost scandinavian
Comment from : @MrJol420

через Русский акцент средневековые предки англичан говорят с ними
Comment from : @vvp_rus

14th century? That might as well be the renaissance
Comment from : @NicholsonNeisler-fz3gi

aka Glasgow accent
Comment from : @mohamadabdulmageed5339

Nandor?
Comment from : @jesusflores3070

Sounds like an American doing a made up accent that's supposed to be an actual one
Comment from : @The_Venerate

Middle English is very mush still a dialect of low German and vice versa Wive - wif(woman), house - hus
Comment from : @Vagabund92

So Irish
Comment from : @VeryStickypiston

Just reminded me of a Scottish chemistry teacher that used to pronounce iron with a hard R
Comment from : @samuelwoods164

That sounds Scottish 😂
Comment from : @abu8788

Sounds better than modern day English
Comment from : @unknownplayer4400

In no time, Brits will have to speak Urdu or call themselves Mohammed We are being cleansed Wake up Professor befits our culture and heritage gets brown washed
Comment from : @JasonB-w5c

Says to pronounce every letter Does not pronounce the e in wife
Comment from : @karihotakainen5210

Sounds like Scottish English(I’m American pls don’t attack me)
Comment from : @ar5611

Sound scottish for me😅 but i am polish
Comment from : @bejbimama6689

So be welsh
Comment from : @MrReich1918

She looks like the type of person to call the police on you for mowing your lawn during her book club hour
Comment from : @GrimmTone-y2c

I'll put £5 on this being total BS
Comment from : @Obi-Ewan-Kenobi

She looks like Sabrina the teenage witch
Comment from : @serpentina05

weef? funny, whimsical hus? goofy sounding, Nordic vibes but k’nigh-t? disgusting does not roll off the tongue at all reprehensible, really
Comment from : @gibbiska

i tried this and just ended up sounding like a Canadian
Comment from : @michaelmartin2603

She's wrong, she isn't pronouncing half the letters
Comment from : @drzetheke3000

This upsets me, to the gallows!
Comment from : @ding_chavez7613

We say hous like this in Norwegian 👌 hus 🏡
Comment from : @christiangullerud5207

So basically Scottish English
Comment from : @waccasali

That sounded really German
Comment from : @Frontline_view_kaiser

Return! Revive true Anglish!
Comment from : @cokedupnormies2651

Medieval people watching this video thinking: this lady is crazy
Comment from : @avivk1687

So beautiful!
Comment from : @Sarah726G

Can’t figure out why all the peasants on Kingdom come deliverance speak perfect modern day English
Comment from : @ShatBoxFord

Thats just drunken irish
Comment from : @elod-g6o

Wow, so sad a beautiful language ended sounding as annoying californian teenage woke girls, ummm sooo likeee awweesomeee
Comment from : @drjaimemora3321

It sounds like german
Comment from : @Mo-Mo88-nl

Sounds like English with logic 😂
Comment from : @Ivan-nm9yo

Medevil english sounds like todays irish?
Comment from : @adamjenkins7196

i think that sounds like a scotsman speaking swedish
Comment from : @Wassara_games

It sounded metal-ish, DRAW YOUR KNOIF M8
Comment from : @patek2385

Still better than modern English
Comment from : @SCP-tn2ln

The funniest thing about this is that Medieval English just sounds like Drunken Danish, really
Comment from : @Insert_Bland_Name_Here

So basically Scottish
Comment from : @toigaming317

proto-patois almost
Comment from : @kafka6309

I heard a lot of probably and might haves
Comment from : @Knowallwithmyphone

Soudns a lot like moravian scottsman xD
Comment from : @TomTrval

Hus? ❌ Huzz😏👍
Comment from : @LeoKessi-w6n

the lord's prayer sounded nothing like that, not even close and that's cos in the 14th century it was only ever read or recited in latin it was blasphemous to be translated and punishable by death
Comment from : @darius-rex

Relax guys it’s her first day being a expert
Comment from : @TravisCaruso-i2y

So basically Scotland
Comment from : @vonxoliver

Jamaican accent crossed with Scottish accent with a tinge of autism Got it
Comment from : @ILikeTurtles42069

Now its brap brap cuz what u sayin fam 🐒
Comment from : @Jimbobnoodle

Thanks, now my furniture are floating
Comment from : @pao2725

How would you know ?
Comment from : @loulouthee

I still hear Jamie Carragher speak that way…like medieval English to me
Comment from : @akhoakhoo

So kinda scottish?
Comment from : @leonoraaragonese7310

latin
Comment from : @ДжонДоу-г8ч

"expert" instruction to pronounce every letter proceeds to give examples without pronouncing every letter
Comment from : @morganb6717

That sounds like swedish
Comment from : @unrealpotato2230

Med e evil Not mediv all
Comment from : @justlookingaround9834

So Scottish
Comment from : @MaxEntropy1

What is the significance or application of understanding what spoken English sounded like in the 14th century?brbrExcept like "huh that is mildly interesting"
Comment from : @johnrichardson8606