Kammer wrote:
According to Wikipedia, William Shakespeare may have spoken with a 'proto-Brummie' accent and dialect. That really changes the way you think of him... in a nice way of course.
One of my favourite parlour games - quoting Shakespeare in a Brummie accent*‘Wun shull way thray mate agin? In thunda, loitning, or ray-in?’
'To bay or not to bay? that is da kwestiun.'
'In tha a dagger what I say befower may, thay 'ondle toward me 'ond?'
*Yes I am that sad sometimes ...
