Can Parent and Daughter co-exist?

[Robert Orr]

>> The current film "Shakeseare In Love" uses large chunks of text taken
>> straight from "Romeo and Juliet", and the audiences -- few of them familiar
>> with Shakespeare in these degenerate days -- don't have any problem with it
>> either.

>Part of the difficulty may be the stage-British dialect in which Shakespeare
>is conventionally spoken and recorded.  With its dropped r's and vowel
>changes, it levels a number of phonemic distinctions in majority English.
>Shakespeare himself, of course, spoke perfectly good American.

Shakespeare himself would have spoken "Mummerzet" to our ears -  Cromwell
would have sounded like an American.

Robert Orr