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   From: jwkenne@attglobal.net   
      
   Troy.Heagy@gmail.com wrote:   
   > Alison Hopkins wrote:   
   >>  wrote in message   
   >>   
   >>> Do you read Shakespeare in the original accent (a kind of   
   >>> Scottish-style brogue)?   
   >>>   
   >> You illiterate oaf. It's akin to a Black Country accent, which is totally   
   >> unlike a Scots brogue. .......   
   >   
   > ..   
   >   
   > Not according to Harvard professor Seth Lehrer.  He compared it to   
   > "pirates' english" with rolling r's like the Scots tend to use.   
      
   "Pirate English" is somewhat the creation of the actor Robert Newton,   
   who built it on the same Mummerzet accent he used as Frank Crutchley in   
   the rather unfortunate movie of "Busman's Honeymoon" (retitled "Haunted   
   Honeymoon" in the US). Shakespeare, of course, was a Warwickshire man.   
   He would probably think nearly all of us to be dreadful cockneys.   
      
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   Nourished the land on a fallacy of rational virtue."   
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