The Canterbury Tales, or, How Technology Changes The Way We Speak: The London History Show

You can support the channel on Patreon here: You can book me for real--life tours! Find out about that here: and here: You can find me on the clock app here: @jdraperlondon Sources and further reading: British Library accents and dialects archive: McGillivray, M. 2013. Canterbury Tales 1 - 541 read aloud: Robson, D. 2016. Has The Queen Become Frightfully Common? Strycharczuk, P. et al. 2020. General Northern English: Exploring Regional Variation in the North of England with Machine Learning Stuart-Smith, J. 2017. Changing sounds in a changing city: An acoustic phonetic investigation of real-time change over a century of Glaswegian Walker, A. 2020. Northern English accents becoming more similar, researchers find. 00:00 Intro 00:59 Chaucer's Canterbury Tales 07:32 Sponsor: Kids These Days 09:08 Caxton's Canterbury Tales 11:31 How Technology Changes The Way We Speak 15:44 Credits