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Quote[/b] ]If you watch movies, you get the impression that people spoke modern English, or some kind of old English from renaissance faires, no matter when the time period
Yeah, it's my understanding that in Elizabethan times, the English accent would've sounded sort of like a backcountry or sort of Appalachian American accent today. Apparently today's English accent didn't really develop and take hold till the 17th or 18th century. But a movie with Queen Elizabeth couldn't very well have her sound like she belongs in the Beverly Hillbillies, could it?