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We been bresting to axe what happened when the Miller told his tale?
Posted by Nora at January 16, 2004 01:05 AM
Pardee ich noot
"My mouth by then like cardboard
seemed to slip straight through my head"
thinketh outrely nyce
Posted by boynton at January 16, 2004 09:45 AM
Posted by Nora at January 17, 2004 01:17 AM
Middle English pronunciation is a lot like dutch
Nora will have a chance to practise....when the eagle lands...soon!
Posted by Averil at January 17, 2004 09:32 AM
So Averil, is that just sort of German with lost of hchs?
CH "a sound like you make when you clear your throat to spit"
G "a sound like you make when you clear your throat to spit"
and (in bare German) Tehadler ist gelandet?
Posted by boynton at January 17, 2004 04:19 PM
No, it sounds like the noise that elderly Dutch people make when they think of Germans. The noise the younger ones make when they find zonked Americans falling in a canal is more like contemporary Glaswegian. Clearing the throat and "tsk'ing at the same time.
Posted by David Tiley at January 17, 2004 07:32 PM
Averil was impressed by your Stanford link and her own pronunciation was pretty close! BTW Tehadler ist gelandet.
Posted by Nora at January 18, 2004 05:05 AM