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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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[-] _skj@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago

Words didn't really have prescribed spellings before modern dictionaries standardized things. If the audience could read it, then it was spelled correctly.

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