Before it goes too viral, let's put an alert to the real story out there. The myth is: "William Shakespeare spoke with an Irish accent"
My former prof David Crystal gives the real and fuller story here: DCblog: On Shakespeare being Irish. It's all about linguistic change, silly.
Nous like scouse or French -oui? We wee whee all the way ... to mind us a bunch of thunks. Too much information? How could that be?
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