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Renaissance Faire: Language
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Elizabethan Insults
This amusing Web page provides a system for creating insults far more colorful than those used today.

Forms of Address
A selection explaining a wide assortment of titles might be interesting for students to compare to modern day equivalents.

Grammar
A few hits to make faire participants sound more authentic.

Pronunciations
Sound clips here give English and Elizabethan pronunciations.

Proper Elizabethan Accents
Suitable for the faire or the scholar.

The Queen's English Pronunciation Drills
Drills for eleven sounds.

Vocabulary
A Renaissance vocabulary list.

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