★ Our English Speech
5-' How speech sounds change '
HAROLD ORTON '
Continuing his series on ' Our English Speech ', Harold Orton this afternoon will describe how English speech sounds have changed through the centuries. The deduction of old English pronunciation from a study of the phonetic spelling of later writers throws an additional light of realism on to the lives of past Englishmen.
Experts have a pretty good idea of what Anglo-Saxon sounded like, and know positively how words were pronounced in later periods of English history. The broadcast will be illustrated by records, and listeners in schools will be asked to co-operate by repeating various sounds.