Is that how they said it back then??
Also, cockpit theatre 🤣😂 but truly an interesting read https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%27Tis_Pity_She%27s_a_Whore
If you haven’t seen the sopranos, everybody pronounces whore like whoore with sometimes comical emphasis on the “oor”
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That explains the David Bowie song I am more familiar with! I always wondered but never enough to remember to look it up later.
I came here to mention just that, lmao
Tis pity she was a hooah!
Words didn't really have prescribed spellings before modern dictionaries standardized things. If the audience could read it, then it was spelled correctly.
Most middle/early-modern English was written in a more "west country" accent.
Haven't you people ever heard of closing the god damn door?