Also, cockpit theatre 🤣😂 but truly an interesting read https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%27Tis_Pity_She%27s_a_Whore
If you haven’t seen the sopranos, everybody pronounces whore like whoore with sometimes comical emphasis on the “oor”
Is that how they said it back then??
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calliope@piefed.blahaj.zone · 11 pts · 150d
That explains the David Bowie song I am more familiar with! I always wondered but never enough to remember to look it up later.
PugJesus@piefed.social · 4 pts · 150d
I came here to mention just that, lmao
Blackfeathr@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 150d
Tis pity she was a hooah!
HuudaHarkiten@piefed.social · 5 pts · 150d
A) she was a whoor, B) she hit me.. and that wasnt my kid she was carrying. It was the coke. She fell, I dunno.
_skj@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 150d
Words didn't really have prescribed spellings before modern dictionaries standardized things. If the audience could read it, then it was spelled correctly.
RobotToaster@mander.xyz · 3 pts · 150d
Most middle/early-modern English was written in a more "west country" accent.
Kolanaki@pawb.social · 2 pts · 150d
Haven't you people ever heard of closing the god damn door?