SC - igrounden & middle english

[Seton1355 at aol.com]

It must have been wonderful!  Has anyone ever seen THE STORY OF ENGLISH?  It 
was on PBS years ago.  Anyway, there is a segment about middle english.  They 
have some people reading it and it *is* very musical sounding.  That is what 
David sounded like last night as he read through some portions of C on I.  
(Of course he started to giggle while reading what some of the foods were and 
asking me:  Do you want quail -eh?  Do you want eel - eh?   Well, you have to 
imagine a ME accent.)
Phillipa
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 I had the interesting occasion to hear the same story by Chaucer read in 
both 
 modern English and Middle English.  It was fascinating to hear how musical 
 the ME was, in comparison to the Modern version.  The meter makes a whole 
lot 
 more sense when done in the original ME.
 
 Balthazar of Blackmoor >>