What Did Medieval English Sound Like?
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sounds like a french scottsman trying to be an irish priest
Most Based British guy
Someone pin this comment 😅
ha ha ha.......... good comment
That is exactly what I thought ))).
joke of the century
The only word that sounded like a joke, was temptation.
The pronunciation of “House” and “knight” is exactly how you say it in Danish lol🇩🇰
Love it, sounds like music to my ears 👂 😍
Almost sounds like swedish words
literally me in my mind cos i spell out every word i wright down in my head 💀💀
Need a longer version 😂
Dutch English is the closest to it today.
So... They sounded Canadian, right? Got it. 👍
As a medieval peasant, I can say she did an amazing job.
Eadric if you don’t get back to plowing the fields it’ll be off with your head! Always playing with that damned magic rectangle
Definitely a vampire 😂
For a medieval peasant your script is impeccable
How did you learn about technology and use of mobile phones?
these jokes are getting so old
Sounds like a pissed up scotsman
Also sounds like the dwarves in LOTR
@@what9331 yeah thats what i said lmfao
Sounds like an American trying really hard to proof they're 1% British
HAHAHAH DEAD
@@what9331 Whose accent is based off Scottish and Irish
As a non-native English speaker, finally a dialect that makes sense!
Too bad this dialect died off centuries ago
The great vowel shift is what made English so freaking weird to all of us learners
@@greenLimeila I’m a native speaker of English, but I can tell it’s awful to learn. It’s a nightmare.
Yeah, for example the "knight" sounds SO much better! Like.. Why not pronounce the "k" and pronounce it like night??? What's the point? And HOW did it shift to that?
Is it fault of the french influence? Because I heard they don't pronounce most of what is written either.
@@Ilivedbihit started to really begin to sound “off” and lose its potency in the 17th Century with the Unification of the English Language and the start of Early Modern English all the way until the mid-19th Century, when the Received Pronunciation unified it again:
Essentially, it was a means of the Educated to be able to literately communicate without the “lower rungs” and the “Uneducated” (all of whom a majority of which were illiterate until the mid-20th Century) being able to as well. It was a way of filtering out the Upper and Lower Classes: if you cannot read the sign or the ledger (which only the Upper Classes could, since they could afford the education), you’re not welcome at this establishment, etc.
I’m not dyslexic, I’m a 14th century knight ✨
👏 👏 👏
K'nigt
You mean you're not lisdexic, right?
I was literally about to write this! hahhahaha
Eem noht deesléxic, Eem ah fürténtuh céntürhee k'nigt ✨
Sounds like somebody who recently learned english but doesn't know about pronunciation rules
Rules? There are no rules of pronunciation in English. You have to memorize how every word sounds.
@@1789HenriqueHow do you think people are able to guess how words and names are pronounced?
I think it sounds like a bad Scandinavian accent.
@@ivanov093sounds Scottish
Because it's made up and relative
“K’niggt” EXACTLY like Monty Python’s Frenchy
It is very similar to the Swedish correspondent "knekt".
@@agnej8550and German “Knecht”
Go away lest I taunt you a second time you outrageous English king
The Monty Python guys were highly educated.
Yep😂
Some words sound like Dutch, which isn't surprising considering both English and Dutch are Germanic languages.
Very similar, especially how the Medieval English pronunciation of “double-vowels” was exactly how the Dutch still pronounce them to this day.
For example: a double “O” or “OO” in Medieval English would’ve been a more drawn-out or longer “O” sound instead of an “U” sound.
The only Modern English words that this rule still applies for are the Dutch loanwords and names: that’s it.
so slightly drunk dutchman
To be more specific, dronken fries
@@NikgamingnlOoit gehoord van een nuchtere Fries?
Well all brits are germanic genetic wise
Very much dutch sounding and not french vowels at all, welps germanic languages ey
Dutch and English are related, a lot of words are the same or very similar
Okay that’s just Trixie Mattel in her Swedish accent
Edit: Woooww so many people bonded by the blonde scary one 😂Swedish Cher would be so proud
hello the swedish people
And I wood sae to my grandperahnts, may I please have brëd
exactly
This was not the cross ref I was expecting but its the one I need! 😂😂😂
You pae de wonce de tweece…
The chain mail necklace is a fabulous touch
Shawty flexing that 15th century drip 💵🔥
chain mail necklace, chain mail ring, chain mail ear rings. so sick
Fr
Plot twist: Trixie wasn’t speaking Swedish, she was actually speaking medieval English
why are you HERE😭😭
IS THIS WHY THIS SHORT IS RECOMMEND TO ME 😭😭😭
The swaedish paypal
swaedish paepal 😭😭😭
Thanks for comen to ma concert
"I am French, you silly English Kiniggit"
that's gotta be some kinda slur
If you don't get this reference you are too young @@goos42
@@kanebass8389 i do I'm just making a joke
Ki-WHAT?
I phart in your general direction.
This sounds like Trixie pretending to be Swedish
Exactly what I thought
LMFAOOOOOOO MY TUMMY 😭😭😭 you're so right
Same hahaha
So glad someone else thinks this ahha
omfggg😭😭
"SHE IS MAH WEEF!"
It would be "heo beon min wif"
😂😂😂
Ché (or cheu) iss mi weef
Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeef
@@sophie_twain No it would be. "Heo beon wif min".. Because English was still using the same word order back then as the rest of the Germanic languages back then.
Sounds like a scotsman parodied by Monty Python
The word for knight actually sounds the way the French taunters said it.
@@swordguy8 Came here to say this. Have a like each, Pelerin and Swordguy.
@@professornuke7562 "Your father was a hamster, and your mother smelled of elderberries!"
😂😂😂
@@TheRealNormanBates*proceeds to throw several barnyard animals after the knights*
I’m glad someone can tell us these things, so we can sound normal on our time-traveling adventures.
Exactly what I was thinking 😂
😂😂😂
😂😂😂
Very true. I had to learn the hard way by listening a lot and speaking very little.
We dissing them like they're not the original 😂
So it sounds like a Monty Python skit, but for real. 😄🤔
I WAS THINKING THE SAME THING
The first thought that came to my mind. 😅
saw the k-niGht and instantly came to the comments
ur swedish
The more I learn about medieval times the more I begin to believe Monty python wasn't too far off😂😂😂
Sounds scottish
Not at all.
Totally different roots
More like frisian
@@rossmcdonagh1554They were talking about Scottish English, not Scottish Gaelic
youre not wrong in that judgement. The north of England and Scotland was not affected as much by the Great Vowel Shift.
More Jamaïcain.
Yeah, the medieval pronunciation of house is basically the same as we pronounce it in Scots Standard English today
That wive/weef, House/huus, Knight/knecht is still used in dutch accents
It's v similar
I think it's better because modern English is some what really confusing. Language should be as seen as pronounced. Not like okay make this silent that silent make the whole word silent and just boop😂
Modern Dutch is one of the most closely related languages to English!
The most closely related is Frisian.
@theshadow8900 we have silent letters because if we didn't we'd have way too many words like...wind/wind or wound/wound or read/read or lead/lead...and just in case you don't get it, those are not pronounced the same.
You ever seen that video of the guy talking in old English to a farmer in friesland? English and Dutch are very very close on the etymological tree
That’s a lot more intelligible than I thought it would be
“Wh-y u laughing? Im s’errrioussss”
Goated😂😂😂
If you aunt had a 😂😂
I don’t do if, buts or maybes
@@crabken4969 “I deal in abshhooolutes”💀
😂😂😂😂😂
That chainmail necklace goes so hard
What😂
I forget the name but there is a chain name for that type of chain. It’s where basically two links are welded side by side and interlocked the whole way
@@SerafinGrivel??
Ehehe im your 1k like
Bc she wants to be a khe-night
"a kilogram of feathers" IFYKYK
But steel's 'eavier than feathers.
@@PaulGaitherI know but they are both a kilogram.
@@BadmintonLogic Whut? That doesn't pruve anythug. Steel's 'evier than feathers.
Nope! More dense, but not heavier.
I can hear this😂😂😂😂
Medieval English sounding like a French tourist trying to speak English phonetically
The mismatch between spelling and pronunciation in French is also notorious, though. Frozen for half a millennium. In this regard they are similar.
"Knicked" and "~Temptacion~" got me 😂
Kn-æ-gt not knicked
@@SteaksOnSpearI didn't know Monthy Python had that one right lmao
@@SteaksOnSpear joke not spelling lesson
It probably shares the dame root as the German "Knecht"
Icks icks icks temptacion
Wow it really shows the dutch and german language roots of english
medieval English as she pronounces it sounds like it could be a German dialect, which I find really interesting to hear
@@mvogel1257 old english is basically frysian which is germanic :)
It is allso similar to swedish hus and knekt are pronaunced pretty close to knigt and hoos
And Norwegian influences. Hus is still house in Norwegian and just like she pronounced it
English is still Germanic @@itsblooba
Med evil already sounds terrifying, can't even imagine what high evil was like.
I see you
BOOOOOO 😂😂😂
😂😂
😂😂😂
I don't get it 😢
It sounded like it should sound. The right pronunciation of the letters.
So they sounded like Borat fighting the Swedish Chef in a phone booth.
In Swedish we say Knäkt (k-naeh-k-t) and hus
Don't bring up the swedish chef..........please XD
@@zeytelaloi ja och hus var där också
bro guess who showed up in my feed right after this short.
This is literally Trixie Mattel doing a Swedish accent 😭
Help😭😭 no literally
Spot on 😂
Yooooo I thought the same thing!!!!!!😂
funny you mention it because this pronounciation for house and knight actually sound exactly like the swedish words for house and knight!! really interesting to see such clear examples of how the languages are related.
@@nunki7213it totally does! 😂 knekt (which is more of an medieval way of saying knight, mostly used for the knight in cards, the real word we use for knight nowdays is riddare I guess? haha) and hus (house) haha... 😁
As a medieval vampire, I say this is canon. It felt nostalgic.
Dracula he live after medieval . Did he not.?
@@burtan2000 must be that small fry of a lord i bit one night.
This Is The Way We Talk In Tucson, Arizoñyyaa
@@burtan2000before
❤
Squashed between French and Irish, sounds about right
I had to memorize a portion of the Tales of Canterbury and this is exactly how it sounded...it was amazing! I still remember some of it by heart...
Wow me too! I went to castileja girls school in Palo Alto. Sophomore year we had to memorize the opening paragraph of the Canterbury tales and I still know it but had not thought of it for 40 yrs till this video and your comment. Man we had better memories when young !
So did I and I really hated it. I somehow don't remember it, despite getting an A on it. Oh well.
I had to memorize some Chaucer so I feel you and yes she’s doing a great job!
This isn't totally related, but in the 7th grade our English teacher made us memorize all of the helping verbs. We all hated the very idea. I can still rattle those off without thinking and I'd bet anyone else in that class can too.
Still remembered, 23 years later.
It's Canterbury Tales.
I've got a huge complete works of Chaucer that I look through every now and then, and I get the impression that English back then had a real hurdy-gurdy sound to it
Hurdy gurdy… literally the best way I’ve heard it described 😂
Who up hurdyin they gurdy??? 🔥💯😂
Given that "Hurdy-Gurdy" is associated with modern Denmark...
And the ongoing politics of the Danelaw and primarily Danish Viking invasions/raids...
@@EdwardSnortinand by hurdy…. welll let’s just say my peanits 😉
Like the swedish chef? 😂
Basically sounds as it should sound if English was more transparent.
Phonetic
😮 😂 waaaaw. Noooo waaaaaayyyyy!! ( why did i spend all this time learning modern English then lol😅)
Sounds like me speaking english in my native accent😭
Transparent?
@@maimee1 i think he means like without all the weird random rules and things that make no sense with the language
She pronounced ”House” exactly how it’s said in swedish… ”hus”
Jaa! Och knight lät som knäckt
Eller knekt
And some Scots, moos for mouse, hoos for house
also how we pronounce it in scotland, which makes sense considering our language is heavily influenced by the vikings invading and settling on our land.
Or Scottish.
So basically a drunk german and drunk scot mocking each other
By trying to mimic a Dutch accent
its swedish yet scottish yet jibberish all at the same time. amazing
As a non native speaker it's way less jibberish than modern english 😅.
Especially the "knight". It sounded so much better. Like why not pronounce the k and say it like night? What's the point of the k then?
This sounds like Trixie Mattel's impression of a Swedish person,
The sound of house and knight is straight up danish.
Knægt is not knight though, ridder is daniah, but yea the words sound very danish
They sound similar because they're both Germanic languages
@@soffisof8032 that's a bingo
@@PAL617 danish
Knægt , engl. Knight and germ. Knecht have the same roots, westgermanic knehta, it means boy, youth
@@IceBurl I know you dunce, that is what I said
Sounds like Gaelic to me
This.
More like a Scottish accent to my ears?
They have history. Must have influenced each other.
@@connaeris8230 I hear Scottish and Welsh
@@connaeris8230 You're right, it's Lowlands Scots adjacent because we haven't had the great vowel shift.
It sounded like a Scotsman speaking French badly.
E
The separation between Scots and English happened just before this era. Northumbrian is the common between Middle English and Middle Scots.
The pronunciation of house and knight makes it sound exactly like the Swedish words for house and knight.
Old Norse influence.
i heard English, German and Nordic languages are closely related. could just be a rumor.
@@bvbxiong5791 they're heavily related
Smh... It sounds like Danish not swedish.. I know our languages are similar but it sounds like danish because danes settled and controlled much of england. Danelaw.
@@guffeluffe5987No it doesn't
Sounds like Trixie Mattel's impression of Swedish, ngl
House in Swedish? Hus. Knight in Swedish? Knekt (k’nekt)
I AM GLAD SOMEONE AGREES
It does sound like Trixies sweedish accent
Omg my first thought!!!!!!! I commented that and then found your comment lollll
😂😂😂
Medieval English sounds just like a Brasilian reading English without knowing the right pronunciation. Ahaha
É mesmo esse kinight
O español
Oh boy this takes me back
Bro was in medieval times
Trixie Matel’s Swedish accent was Medieval English all along
😂😂😂
My thoughts exactly 😭
de swedesh papel
@@_murdocsleftpinkietoe the way i full on heard her
The French soldiers in Monty Python's Holy Grail sounded just like that
"Fetchez la vache"
@@nicejungle Quoi?
@@scoobalicioussodelicious Fetchez la vache!!!
Well they were also speaking English with the French vowel pronunciations 😂
The way he says Knight gets sus 😂👀
The English still haven't figured out how to speak proper ......ENGLISH...we Americans know....not the North Carolinians though..... God knows what they are saying.....
I’m swedish and knight is ”knekt” in Swedish, pronounced pretty much the same way as she says it, and house is “hus”, also pronounced the same.
yeah, it's very swedish sounding, which makes sense the uk got colonized by vikings.
Do you pronounce Viking as Vee-King?😂😂😂
@@rocky_wang actually yes
@@zacs2118 I’m genius 😁😁😁
@@zacs2118 Yes. Vowel shift makes English vowels sound weird.
That chainmail-like necklace fits the medieval topic so much!
Came here looking for this comment, that's metal af
Right??
Scandinavian still has _viv, hus_ and _knægt_ (Swedish spelling: knekt), although _viv_ has become archaic now, and Danish _knægt_ has become a colloquial term for "young male" or "boy"; sort of like British English "lad".
Viv exists in Fenno-Swedish still, although it's a bit archaic :D
@@JUMALATION1 So basically just like in högsvenska. :)
@Embassy_of_Jupiter Ook in Afrikaans en Nederlands. 😀
@Embassy_of_Jupiter viv became "Weib" and it's still used jokingly and in dialect.
This sounds like Trixie Matel’s Swedish accent
It's so interesting because it sounds like Swedish!
"Hus" pronouced the exact same way, means house.
"Knekt" pronounced the exact same way as well, means soldier.
Absolutely crazy how related language is!
Danish too
And norwegian 😂
The Danes, Swedes, and Nords ruled over England for centuries, it makes sense.
No actually it doesn't, cause they didn't rule england as much as the normans, or even the anglo-saxon kingdoms. These similarities are just because norse languages and english are all germanic languages@@feltfrog
@@albertopalomanes5660 the Danes and Norse ruled over England for centuries so it tracks that medieval english has similar pronunciations and characteristics to Nordic languages.
"temptation" DERAILED ME OMGGGG 😭😭😭
Calm down, kid.
Stop crying.
@@XtZBane NEVER
Why? So odd...
Xxxtempation
Sounds like Trixie Mattel's Swedish accent
Was looking for this comment 😂😂😂 yes!!!!!
AHAHAHAHHA
Omg yessd 😂🎉
LMAOO
The prayer sounds beautiful. I can definitely listen to that on loop
As a medieval kinect, I can confirm this is accurate
Medieval Xbox one must have been fire
How much was a xbox in the middle ages ?? 😂😂😂
I want to listen to her speak in medieval English for HOURS.
Medieval English sounds soothing to the ear
She talks about French, but it should be noted that French was the language that mixed into medieval English, leading it to become the modern English. Medieval English actually sounds a lot like Germanic languages, which makes sense since English was a Germanic language until the Normans (French) conquered England.
Yeah I was gonna say this. The examples she used sound more like old English pronunciation was still in effect in medieval England. The pronunciation of Hus and the eh sound with words ending in E are very Germanic.
I was thinking exactly the same
William the conqueror invaded England in 1066. She mentioned medieval English in the 14th century.
@@Marie-jb4vw yes I assume most of use are aware. Some of the examples of the pronunciation she gave were in place in old English prior to the Norman invasion. It seems even with the introduction of norman French much of the pronunciation in medieval English was similar to that of old English.
she correctly says Middle English later down the line, so I assume that's their definition of "medieval"
Old English is just something else entirely
I’m skeptical, she looks awfully young for 14th century
this clears up so many accents in all those medieval movies
As a medieval donkey, I can say that prayer is impeccable.
Trixie’s Swedish accent jumped out of her at the end
E
She sounds like me when I’m speaking Splangish 😂 Got it, English is really a mutt of a language.
That's just Irish or Scottish. Literally sounds like Seamus.
Irish and Scottish English is more conservative, but it still changed quite a lot.
I'm assuming that there's no way to actually know what it sounded like, they are using those as reference somehow....
@@daysofend There were phoneticians who gave really detailed descriptions on how English sounded like
idk abt you but it doesn't sound like irish in the slightest to me, more welsh honestly
My uncle is a professor of medieval English and every time ive heard him talk like this i cant help but crack up lol
Medieval knight sounds like the german knickt
Huereynsouhn
All 'gh' in English used to be pronounced like 'ch' in German. Knight is like the German Knecht. Light/Licht, Night/Nacht etc.
her rendition of gh wasn't particularly accurate. It was generally pronounced similarly to German ch
I would rather say that medieval knight totally sounds like Polish person would read it out loud without any knowledge of English pronunciation
Or "Knecht" - which would make sense, as in a serving person.
Middle English was the language spoken at that time, and it involved þ (thorne) in the place of th, and æ was not uncommon. It was a combination of old German, old French, Gaelic, old Norse, and Latin in root, though more simply was old English with French and German added, if memory serves. It sounded almost nothing like modern English, save for a few similar words.
The need to make AAA video game with authentic Medieval English.
that would involve paying writers and scholars instead of hiring activists.
Age of empires
@@colonelblars9126 Ouch! Terrific line!
so where can i listen to her narrating a whole audiobook like this cuz i need it immediately
Modern Scotland sounding like 14th century England apparently
Wow, it sounds a bit like Dutch, but even more like Swedish or Danish.
If English was Phonetic not ✨Aesthetic✨
True.
It's not ""aesthetic"". It's very inconsistent in appearence.
@@GumSkyloardEnglish spelling has been made inconsistent partly because of aesthetic considerations. Like how someone put the 'b' back in 'debt' (although it was never there in English) because it had to reflect its Latin origin.
@@TheWanderingNight That's not an aesthetic consideration, that's an etymological consideration.
Do you guys just throw words around because they sound cool to you?
As a french, i like it a lot.
I wish we could have more stuff like that in movie, it's important for the immersion.
I think the main villain in the animated adult show _Blue Eye Samurai_ speaks in medieval English; amazing show by the way
edit: correction, as pointed out by cherry soda, he's Irish
I'm french too and I agree ! The "knight" pronunciation is so french mdrr
@@travelsizedhispasianhe doesn’t, he’s just Irish. Also too late to be medieval (show takes place in the ~1650s)
France was once Gaul....the language of Gaul was Gaelic....
“ as a French “
Bro
“Ay-vil!”
- Mermaid man, probably
Actually, it sounded like it was written. Right pronunciation. 😂 It made sense then but not now. Its evolution is terrific.
This kind of linguistic history was what my late uncle G. Lahage taught at St. Michael's College in Vermont. He was one the kindest, generous and compassionate persons I've ever known. This video made me smile. Thank you mam.❤
Trixie Mattel has been speaking medieval English for years now
Sounds like reading English in spanish but pretending your mouth is half numb.
It would sound like German. English is a Germanic language and Anglo Saxon means something. Now I am wondering where the place Saxony is, anyone knows?
My senior year in high school our English teacher made us learn a portion of the prelude of The Canterbury Tales in Middle English and recite it. It has been 40 years and I can still recite most of it.
chain mail necklace goes so hard
It sounds a lot like Dutch to me...
(I don't speak Dutch).
I am, yet it does sound like Dutch to me.
Thought the same!!
@@tycho1123yeah as a fellow Dutchie it sounded quite Dutch!
I would say Swedish
Yeah dutch totally 😂
It also sounds more similar to Scandinavian languages. My native language is Danish and I've noticed that Danish and old English have a lot more in common than the modern versions do already.
Knægt was for example spot on Danish. Hus was Swedish/Norwegian.
I always forget that English and Dutch were at one time joined.
/Huuz/ is way closer to the Dutch way of saying it.
And a /weev/ is still used in the Limburg province.
Exactly. I have no idea where she thinks much of that sounds or is pronounced like french. I can speak french.
its pronounced more germanically, not francically!
@@terranaxiomukElle parle de l’ancien anglais qui a pour racine l’ancien français.
Olde english is very like west Frisian
@@astronotics531 no that would be middle English not Olde English which is an Anglo-Frisian language
"pronounce every letter" ... immediately pronounces wife and house with a silent e
Sounds like Trixie Mattel talking to the Swedish people.
This explains why we have letters in English that makes you ask why. Now I want to know why we, either, didn't re-spell the words after we stopped speaking that way, or why did we stop speaking that way. One of our founding fathers actually attempted to remove letters that seem useless today. Ex. X isn't pronounced, it's used as a Z or a K. X-ray is an exception. But we don't we say X-wife? K was also intended to be removed since it's used in words like cat rather than kat. I think Q was on the chopping block also. Obviously, that founding father was overruled.
Hus and knekt is the norwegian words for house and knight (at least the knight in a deck of cards). thats fun
I think those words all have Germanic roots
@@KatinkaMaika no shat Sherlock
I was thinking the same, but in Swedish 😎
Finnaly understand why its called knekt!
Old Norse.