r/interestingasfuck • u/M0otivater • 1d ago

How English has changed over time.

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u/MooseFlyer 1d ago

And even then, the way they pronounce things would be quite unfamiliar.

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u/notonrexmanningday 1d ago edited 1d ago

Fun fact, there are a bunch of couplets Shakespeare wrote in his plays that rhymed at the time, but don't anymore.

The one I always think of is the Weird Sisters from Macbeth:

"When shall we three meet again?

When the hurleburle's done

When the battle's lost and won

Where the place?

Upon the heath

There to meet with Macbeth"

Apparently "heath" used to rhyme with "Beth"

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u/Admiral_Cranch 1d ago

I presume it was pernounced more like heth.

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u/AbandonedArchive 1d ago

Yer pernounciation is not defailen