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The only difference here between "Darth" and D'ath" is the glottal stop
Brilliant. That's made my day, Max.
[takes another gulp of Snake's Armpit, that world-famous extra strong brew]
[goes temporarily blind]
So is the "glottal stop" where Darth Vader goes [CLiCK] at the end of a breath?
[innocence]
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I took a class on Chaucer and one of our tests was to meet with the Professor and read a passage with the "proper" pronunciation.
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Chaucer tests..."proper" pronunciation. Did this professor have any other sadistic tendencies then, pj ? Although I'd loved to have been a fly on the wall. 
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Thank you, I always thought it a bit weird. But then I didn't do very well on the test. I remember he asked the class if anyone would be interested in taking a class in learning how to "speak" (I guess that would be the word) Middle Age English. Not one hand went up.
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how to "speak" (I guess that would be the word) Middle Age English
Well, it could actually be fun. Of course it would be a bit of a work of fiction, as would speaking Latin. You can never know exactly how the tongues would have sounded.
Perhaps we'd be surprised at the familiarity of certain sounds if we did have a time machine?
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