Renfrew's Celtic Scenario

[JoatSimeon at aol.com]

>alderson at netcom.com writes:

>We are often cozened by writing, and by the habits of the modern stage, to
>think of Elizabethan English as being similar or identical to our own, and
>then to extend that thought to the language of non-literate societies over
>longer periods of time.

-- good point.  The pronunciation has changed a lot more than the orthography.
  When English spelling was regularized, it was fairly phonetic.