Early Modern English Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ===Specific words=== ''Nature'' was pronounced approximately as {{IPA|[ΛnΙΛtΙΙΉ]}}<ref name="Hark"/> and may have rhymed with ''letter'' or, early on, even ''latter''. ''One'' may have been pronounced ''own'', with both ''one'' and ''other'' using the era's long {{sc2|GOAT}} vowel, rather than today's {{sc2|STRUT}} vowels.<ref name="Hark"/> ''Tongue'' derived from the sound of ''tong'' and rhymed with ''song''.<ref name="Sonnet">Crystal, David (2011). "[http://www.davidcrystal.com/?fileid=-4836 Sounding out Shakespeare: Sonnet Rhymes in Original Pronunciation] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171020080423/http://www.davidcrystal.com/?fileid=-4836 |date=20 October 2017 }}". In Vera Vasic (ed.) ''Jezik u Upotrebi: primenjena lingvsitikja u cast Ranku Bugarskom''. Novi Sad and Belgrade: Philosophy faculties. P. 298-300.</ref> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page