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Day: January 28, 2017

Where did the pronunciation of Ancient Greek (in modern times) come from? Who determined that it should sounds this way and why?

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Posted in categories: Ancient Greek, Linguistics

The ball got rolling, as Pronunciation of Ancient Greek in teaching – Wikipedia notes, in the early Renaissance, a generation before Erasmus. Erasmus published the system that prevailed in the West since, and that was a closer approximation of the modern reconstruction than Modern Greek pronunciation was: The study of Greek in the West expanded […]

Is Australian accent a moderate between British and American ones?

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Posted in categories: English, Linguistics

Like the others said. There is a split between American accents and Commonwealth accents, with American often more archaic; the retention of r after vowels is the biggest shibboleth (and several British and Irish accents line up with America there). The Australian accent is pretty close to London English, though apparently there was a Midlands […]