[MR] Latest Salvos in Richard III Story

[Peter Schorn]

I find it interesting that Richard III spoke with a West Midlands accent.  This is the same dialect in which was written "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight," "Pearl," and several other gems of late-medieval English poetry whose Middle English was not the same as Chaucer's Middle English.

I've heard it said that "vowels are drink to the consonants' meat."  The vowels of this dialect seem to fill the mouth and linger on the tongue like good wine.

--Cadfan ap Morgan