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Why Shakespeare Could Never Have Been French

A 5-minute video by Tom Scott about language and linguistics, on the Language shelf. It came up in r/linguistics, in a thread called “Favorite Linguistics YouTube channels?”.

Tom Scott, Video, 5 min, 2021, on the Language shelf

Why English poetry depends on the stress patterns French lacks.

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