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by dtech 1874 days ago
Quite interesting how - as a dutch speaker - you can hear English Germanic roots quite clearly. It almost sounds like a Dutch or German speaker is reading the "English" text phonetically without knowing pronunciation rules.

Especially "cage" and "beke" are pronounced like you'd do in Dutch nowadays, showing the large shift English 'a' and 'e' have undergone.

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Interesting. But what is "beke" ?
I guess "beak" ("bek" in Dutch)
It's from the video, old english for beak