I'm stuck here for the day. Entertain me!!

[Bellatrix]

I'm having a 24 hour sleep study. Hooked up to a circuit board like an android.

Super bored.

Tell me what you're doing with your day! Any funny stories welcome too.

[one_step_closer]

Does that mean you have to stay in bed all day?! I'm not doing anything exciting, mostly cleaning in preparation for my brother visiting.

[Cpt_Stunning]

A mother takes her son - who's almost 7-years-old - to a bakery to choose his birthday cake, he wants the most expensive cake which his mother can't afford.

A man in the queue hears the conversation & buys the cake for them & wishes him a happy birthday. The mother asks him to write down his contact details so she can pay him later, He writes down something on the paper, gives it to the boy, & walks out.

What he wrote was 'a simple act of caring creates an endless ripple that will come back to you'

About 20 years later, a woman & her 2 children are in a bakery to choose a cake for their grandfather's birthday. Again they want the most expensive cake for their grandfather, but their mother can't afford it.

A kind man insists on paying for the cake, explaining what had happened to him when he was almost 7. The woman asks him to write down his contact details, but he writes down exactly what the man all those years ago had written, & walked out.

When they give their grandfather his birthday cake, he was so grateful, & they explained that a kind man had paid for it, & he wrote this on a piece of paper we gave to him.

The grandfather read it & said 'this is exactly what I wrote when I bought a cake for a 7-year-old boy about 20 years ago, he must be the man who bought me this cake'.

True story.

[Buttons.]

I bought my dog a new toy and she shredded it in seconds as per and is now looking out of the window on a chair because she clearly thinks everybody is a new playmate-note she isn't defending me she's just like MORE FRIENDS!!!

Also I went into town with support worker and got some last minute shopping done so always good :)

[Buttons.]

That's a lovely story Cpt :)

[Sketchy]

I hope it goes by quickly for you.

I’ve had a lazy day, but tonight I’m going to listen to music and wrap up Christmas presents.

[Isoverity]

I was just reading about Shakespeare's marriage to Ann Hathaway and came across funny spellings of Shakespeare's name in marriage documents

The Episcopal Register at Worcester, records in Latin the issuing of a wedding licence to "Wm Shaxpere" and one "Annam Whateley" of Temple Grafton. The following day, Fulk Sandells and John Richardson, friends of the Hathaway family from Stratford, signed a surety of £40 as a financial guarantee for the wedding of "William Shagspere and Anne Hathwey".

"Shagspere" lol...Ole Willie Shags


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_H...of_Shakespeare)

[Buttons.]

That's really interesting Jack. I love seeing how spelling has changed and how some of the old stuff gives us at least a little clue as to how people pronounced things.

[Isoverity]

Quote:

Originally Posted by Buttons.

That's really interesting Jack. I love seeing how spelling has changed and how some of the old stuff gives us at least a little clue as to how people pronounced things.

Like herbs vs erbs and football vs soccer lol. Its funny that in US the spellings etc are actually often closer to what original language was in England. US says "soccer" because British did ("soccer" is from an abbreviation for AsSOCiation Football, the ‘official’ name for the game - plus the addition of the suffix –er - as in "rugger").

As for spoken word, I saw a good video explaining how the sound of Shagespearean English could be investigation by discerning where rhymes didn't match speaking modern English


https://phys.org/news/2010-10-profes...ds-accent.html

[Buttons.]

I've watched the video and tbh I don't hear a hint of American accent (not to be rude just don't) it all sounds English/Irish/Scottish to me.

[Isoverity]

Quote:

Originally Posted by Buttons.

I've watched the video and tbh I don't hear a hint of American accent (not to be rude just don't) it all sounds English/Irish/Scottish to me.

It depends on the "America accent" being referred to. A New York accent and an accent from Alabama are different. Old Shakespearean is closer to a US southern accent. There are remote fishing communities along Atlantic coast where traces of olde English accent remain.

Listen to this British actor recite lines in modern English accent and then older accent

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hi-rejaoP7U


Then listen to these older accented southern folks

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NxVOIj7mvWI

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