Monophthong Essays
Hamlet Dialect Is The Language In Hamlet
Meaning ‘long’ would become ‘lang’. Trudgill believes that this phonology derives from old Anglo-Saxon. Alongside this, medieval pronunciation such as employing monophthongs - pure vowels- in the Yorkshire dialect changing the phonology of ‘house’ to ‘hoos’. As well this it is also common to hear ‘h-dropping’ in the Yorkshire dialect - ‘happy’ becoming ‘appy’ - and also the pronunciation of ‘ing’ becoming ‘in’ ( e