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Charlie Hancock The History of Spoken English March 12th This is not a talk on split infinitives, and what the differences are between the past participle and the past tense. Definitely not!Charlie will show us how the seeds of spoken English were first set. He will also show us how each invading force affected the English language, and the different sounds they brought; from the Angles and Saxons to the Vikings and Normans. How Shakespeare was really spoken; the effect of the Renaissance; the religious input; and how England, by being a trading nation creating an Empire, adopted words from across the globe into the English language. Charlie will include a dialect tour of the British Isles and further afield, and demonstrate the different facial expressions of each dialect . . . and how a deaf person he knows can tell what dialect a person has . . . just by lip reading. Very informative and highly entertaining.
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