Sixteenth-century London dialect: how Londoners spoke in Sir Gresham’s time
A lecture by Laura Wright tracing obsolete features of sixteenth-century London speech and how they survive in some overseas English variants, including traditional blues lyrics. AI summary of the listing
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Sir Thomas Gresham (1519-1579) was born in London, and would have spoken what is now known as Early Modern English. Early Modern English was variable, partly because the old Anglo-Norman/Medieval Latin/Middle English system had become abandoned and monolingual English was beginning to standardise; and partly because an increase in trade meant an increase in mobility, resulting in more linguistic influences. This…
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