Re: History of French

From: Mxsmanic (mxsmanic_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 09/19/04 

Date: Sun, 19 Sep 2004 23:56:32 +0200

Peter T. Daniels writes:

> The speech of the non-celebrity contestants (I'm not sure
> there's any other readily available source of non-trained radio or TV
> speech from the era) is clearly not the same as current speech.

And how do the _trained_ voices sound? After all, they are the ones
speaking standard English.

> The last time I flew JetBlue, I got to see Match Game and Family Feud
> (on GameShowNetwork or whatever it's called) from the 70s, and even 30
> years is enough for them to sound a little different.

What were the differences? 

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