Short:        Experimental Middle English Accent
Author:       mbarlow@pacific.telebyte.net
Uploader:     mbarlow@pacific.telebyte.net
Version:      0.7
Type:         util/libs
Requires:     Translator43.0 (See Tran43pch.lha)
Distribution: Aminet

   This is an experimental, generalized Middle English accent.  It
represents English as pronounced before the "Great Vowel Shift" with
trilled Rs and guttural gh sound.  It is based on the brief description of
Middle English in "A History of the English Language" by Albert C. Baugh.
This accent has been optimized with Narrator 37.7 and requires
Translator43.

   A sample Middle English text, a fragment of Chaucer's Troilus and
Criseyde, is included.  "3" represents the Middle English character "yogh".

   Installation

   Copy or move the chaucer.accent file to the Locale:accents directory.
   (which should also be SYS:Locale/accents directory or the
   HD0:Locale/accents directory.)


                                               M. L. Barlow
                                               Silverdale, WA
                                               mbarlow@Pacific.Telebyte.net


============================= Archive contents =============================

Original  Packed Ratio    Date     Time    Name
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    1143     545 52.3% 20-May-97 20:55:14 +ax_0Chaucer.readme
     380     168 55.7% 20-May-97 18:47:50 +ax_0Chaucer.readme.info
   14418    4081 71.6% 31-Jan-97 23:20:34 +chaucer.accent
     134      90 32.8% 20-May-97 18:47:50 +chaucer.accent.info
    9891    4465 54.8% 29-Apr-97 17:48:36 +Troilus.txt
     359     234 34.8% 20-May-97 18:47:50 +Troilus.txt.info
     632     281 55.5% 08-Jun-97 20:52:40  chaucer.info
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   26957    9864 63.4% 23-Jun-97 22:39:50   7 files