wtf so i was born in 2007, have been nowhere near a 1696 accent and have somehow partly acquired bits of it (like 60-70%) through other accents wtf edit: 1752 SOUNDS ALMOST EXACTLY LIKE ME APART FROM STUFF LIKE EXCUSE (u is less pronounced) AND "R" BEING LESS PRONOUNCED WTF????? (except its a lil bit less overall, but its absolutely 1752 accent) also my 93 year old great grandparents sound a lot like the 1886 recording

How do you know how they sounded in those times.

This is well done, thank you! Have you considered focusing on melody as well because I think it is not less important when trying to distinguish language varieties from one another.

Now I'm curious about who reached out to the other more for help understanding their own old language by learning the nuances of the other's translation: the English researchers or the French researchers?

I love how Simon looks like someone who would know Old English

This is cool. I'm Faroese, and I feel like the English and Faroese parts of my brain are really far apart from each other, but the two first soundbytes were making me switch between languages like crazy. It's kind of like the images that can be seen in different ways, or the gif of the rotating dancer, that can rotate both ways. This speech kept making me click into one language, only to immediately send me off to the other one. Felt kinda trippy!

ELLO ME OWLLLD CHINA

i very much doubt they had ANY hint of an american or indeed upper class accent as the mayflower was packed with folk mainly of nottinghamshire/yorkshire and lincolnshire heritage!!

am i crazy or does it kinda sound like jamaican patois

What do you use as a camera and to achieve that look?

Scottish people still speak like this

was just going thru ur channel. im transgender and im loving your various videos. im glad you point out being trans is nothing political and ur so supportive

Im English but i have an american tone to my accent, i don't put it on, it comes naturally, not sure why, just do.

I'm a Geordie, I understand this.

This is so interesting. Until around 1650s the accents sound full on Northern, even Scottish. This really does show the Saxon and Scandinavian influences in our language.

Doesn't sound like London 🤔

It sounds like welsh!

Im american and definitely herd " burk" from releatives

Isn’t 2024 London accent Arabic now?

the phone balancing like that to me is like being in school and trying to pay attention to teacher while there's a fire right behind him

I thought you said “ Happy Christmas” in England?

I know you said the Kind George V one wasn't necessarily due to German influence, but I'm a German English teacher and as soon as I heard that accent, I thought, this sounds like my students (ie a German accent).

The soft R is very grating to me when spoken by an american, like when listening to WW2 era presidential speeches.... Sounds phony, like the person is just trying to sound fancy and doesn't speak that way in normal conversation.

So by going off this video, parts of ireland, scotland and wales will have a cockney accent in 700 years 😂😂

you can hear German sounds in the early accents

How do you know what they sounded like if there are no recordings from then?

6:24 What are the words he's referring to?

If most British accents aren't put on, then explain why so many British actors do such flawless American accents, but rarely do American actors do good British accents.

So Jamaicans came over in 1346

Thank you for making this video. I don’t hear a difference. But appreciate what the context is.

Simon I clicked on this a bit sceptical but the depth and accuracy of your analysis kicks ass, thanks my man

English 2024: nocap lit savage slaaayyyyyyy

I wonder if he'll switch to an indian accent at the end of the video. 😛

Oddly I have heard "what do you lack?" In the south and mid east USA

They all just sound like vikings during the old days

I want a Sweeny Todd pie

Met a irish at pub once in wellington nz, he sounded like the 1346 english guy i swear, he spoke slow for me but when he spoke normal it was to fast an i couldnt catch alot of words, very buzzy an cool guy 👍

What an interesting video 😊

I thought it was "I am Connor McLeod of the clan McLeod!"

I ain't got a foggy clue wtf been said in 1406...something boutta rotten dog

As far as setting down accents goes, Roman grammarians from the Punic War did that for Latin, at least according to Luke Ranieri’s PolyMathy podcast.

You know, the explanation of American English (especially Texan) "howdy" as short for "how do you do" always seemed implausible, somehow. In the modern dialect the second "do" gets all the focus, to the extent the *first* one seems extraneous. But if "how do you?" was a remembered phrase, frozen well past when it could have been created from scratch, slurred and drawled beyond recognition over the decades, it seems a much more plausible origin. I wonder if this lack of do support persisted in some of our dialects?

Its funny, as i get drunker i understand more and more from the bieggining of the video to less and less toward the end😅

You are the best.

I could understand all of this. Of course, I also got an A plus for my recitation of Beowulf.

I reckon the word “Berlin” is more English than Germania/Deutsch... English is a shill of German language and vice-versa 🤔🤔

The 1706 and 1766 and even bits of the 1826 examples sound very American. Not entirely, still archaic, but more similar. It doesn't start sounding English in a familiar way to me until 1886

"How, Simon" Why use many word when few word do trick

9:40 Interesting how much English has continued to be influenced by Latin based languages like French

9:05 Or more advanced examples - Imma - I am going to - Whatchya gonna do - What are you going to do Unless these aren't really universal