Simon Roper
303K subscribers
I am a filmmaker, dialect coach, and maker of YouTube videos mostly relating to historical linguistics and filmmaking. Professional correspondence can be sent here: [email protected]
From Old English to Modern American English in One Monologue
Simon Roper · 3.3M views · 9 months ago
The Vowel That English Lost
Simon Roper · 279K views · 3 weeks ago
Why Doesn't 'Chicken' Rhyme with 'Sicken'?
Simon Roper · 59K views · 2 months ago
What The Word 'What' Says About Your Accent
Simon Roper · 113K views · 6 months ago
Does English Really Have 20 Vowels?
Simon Roper · 22K views · 5 months ago
How Were Shakespearean Accents Different from American Accents?
Simon Roper · 18K views · 4 months ago
Why English Keeps Turning its Vowels into 'Uh'
Simon Roper · 129K views · 3 months ago
Old English Pronunciation: A Comprehensive Reconstruction
Simon Roper · 87K views · 2 years ago
The 17(ish) Vowels of Shakespeare's London
Simon Roper · 11K views · 4 months ago
Leftovers from Older English
Simon Roper · 321K views · 6 years ago
Why Do Shakespearean Accents 'Sound Irish'?
Simon Roper · 80K views · 1 year ago
An Upper-Class Southern British Accent, 1673 - 2023
Simon Roper · 1.5M views · 2 years ago
What Was the Great Vowel Shift?
Simon Roper · 92K views · 3 years ago
Did Proto-Indo-European Really Only Have 2 Vowels?
Simon Roper · 103K views · 3 years ago
Crows and Corvids in Early Medieval England
Simon Roper · 184K views · 3 years ago
Conversational English in 1586
Simon Roper · 1.1M views · 2 years ago
Are Historical Accent Reconstructions Just Nonsense?
Simon Roper · 37K views · 2 years ago
Does ChatGPT Know About Historical Linguistics?
Simon Roper · 14K views · 7 months ago
Is There an 'Oldest' English Dialect?
Simon Roper · 118K views · 4 years ago