Patricia T. O'Conner on Shakespeare's English
Our word maven Patricia T. O'Conner Discusses Elizabethan speech"the language that Shakespeare and his actors used, circa 1600, and how it was originally pronounced, which sounds similar to the English spoken by Americans and by the Irish today. She'll also answer questions about language and grammar. An updated and expanded third edition of her book, Woe is I: The Grammarphobe's Guide to Better English in Plain E…