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- I interview a speaker of Middle English. He speaks the London dialect from around 1400. This is what English sounded like before the Great Vowel Shift and before a lot of Latinate vocabulary entered the language during the Renaissance. It's based the English of Chaucer with a few embellishments of my own.
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Get my book:
Middlechester Chronicles and the Story of Idioms: A witty and satirical look at 347 English idioms and their origins told through stories
To read the first chapter free and purchase the book go to aunty.co.uk
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- I interview a speaker of Middle English. He speaks the London dialect from around 1400. This is what English sounded like before the Great Vowel Shift and before a lot of Latinate vocabulary entered the language during the Renaissance. It's based the English of Chaucer with a few embellishments of my own.
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![When you use the PAST TENSE to talk about THE FUTURE | Unreal past [Weird English]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/EC_dN4UtTKM/mqdefault.jpg "When you use the PAST TENSE to talk about THE FUTURE | Unreal past [Weird English]
Get my book:
Middlechester Chronicles and the Story of Idioms: A witty and satirical look at 347 English idioms and their origins told through stories
To read the first chapter free and purchase the book go to www.aunty.co.uk
- We talk about the unreal past with WISH, IF ONLY, SUPPOSE, WHAT IF, CONDITIONALS, HAD BETTER and soup...mostly mulligatawny soup. We use the past tense to talk about the present and future. Yes, English is sometimes weird.
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