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Gresham College: Sixteenth-Century London Dialect: How Londoners Spoke in Sir Thomas Gresham’s Time

How Londoners actually sounded in the 1560s, and how anybody can know.

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Laura Wright, who works on the history of English, reconstructs the speech of Thomas Gresham's London from an era before spelling settled down - which is precisely why the written record gives so much away about how words were said. 18:00.

Where
Barnard's Inn Hall, Holborn, EC1N 2HH
Nearest station
Chancery Lane · 1 min walk

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