On Dec 30, 2012, at 9:27 AM, Herbert Ward <[email protected]> wrote:
> Suppose one were interested in learning to speak English > with an accent approximating that that Dowland might > have had, with the idea that this might help him understand > Dowland's music better. How would one proceed? Would > any modern British accents be close? One could start by taking a wild guess. British pronunciation varied widely from place to place, even more than it does now. And we don't really know where the Big D came from--there's so little evidence about it that Grattan Flood's century-old assertion that he was Irish can't be disproved. -- To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
