Episode 159: Elizabethan Voices

Published: May 18, 2022, 4:31 a.m.

In 1569, an English scholar named John Hart published a manuscript called \u2018An Orthographie.\u2019 The text argued for a phonetic spelling system, and it provided one of the earliest detailed descriptions of the sounds of English. In this episode, we \u2026 Continue reading \u2192