Spoken English :)

[digitS']

I'm hard of hearing.

You can get more of this than I can but you can cheat too, by reading the original written words. Or, some of us can . Others might insist that it should be in American .... English.

Let's go back, a ways ...

500 years

Steve

[rainbowgardener]

In college, I had a linguistics class where we learned how to read/ pronounce Shakespearean and Chaucerian English. It was interesting and fun.

Chaucer: (written out phonetically) Whan that Ah-prilla, with his shurres soota, the drochta of Maerz hath pare-ced to the roota ....

[tomf]

Also if you go back before about 1900 the music scale was not set to 440A it was 357A. Tunings in classical music were much different than today, so much of the old classical music would sound different in it's day.

[imafan26]

Actually, I think everyone should learn sign language and it should be taught in schools. It can be a universal language.