Pronunciation of "gonne"

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Chaucer got shipwrecked about twenty miles from London. He couldn’t talk to anyone in the village and was thought to be a Frenchman
When gonne was an active word English prononced the K in knight and knife, as in the Danish-English king Knute. An e was at the end of words like wynde, wind, and pronounced windy.
Our English today was given to us by Shakespeare and the printing press
I doubt that gonne was pronounced a proper way anywhere. Even today in the UK there are still local dialects that are almost gibberish to people a few hours away
 
Chaucer got shipwrecked about twenty miles from London. He couldn’t talk to anyone in the village and was thought to be a Frenchman
When gonne was an active word English prononced the K in knight and knife, as in the Danish-English king Knute. An e was at the end of words like wynde, wind, and pronounced windy.
Our English today was given to us by Shakespeare and the printing press
I doubt that gonne was pronounced a proper way anywhere. Even today in the UK there are still local dialects that are almost gibberish to people a couple of miles away

FIFY.
 
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For all that haven’t seen it, I highly recommend watching hot fuzz for the 3 person translation of rural English old person dialect
 
Back in the seventies there was a book I read on the Trojan war. One question was the war was thought to be about 1250 bc, but the Iliad wasn’t written for more centuries.
How much could be recalled across that length of time
The author referred to a study by a bard in the 1979s living in the north of Scotland who was a story teller. He only spoke Scottish Gallic and was illiterate. He told a new story every day for three years an had not yet repeated one at the writing of the book
All these old epic poetry pieces learned young and stored in this guys head
At least a thousand tales
sherazade had nothing on him
 
Watching Utube car vids last night and the British narrator kept calling a 2 door car a COUP-AY. I wanted to bich slab that pretentious uppity Englishman.
 
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