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title: "3 Elizabethan English Quotes by 3 authors"
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> [I think there are one or two things similar in Elizabethan English and contemporary Hebrew. This is not to say that every…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amos-oz/i-think-there-are-one-or-two-things-similar-in-elizabethan-english/)

[Amos Oz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/amos-oz/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/de8/amos-oz-1478_certain_i-think-there-are-one-or-two-things-simi_397903.png)

> [“Well, I declare!: The Appalachian dialect of the mountains of West Virginia, Kentucky, and Tennessee is linguistically closer to Elizabethan English (the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/deborah-ford/well-i-declare-the-appalachian-dialect-of-the-mountains-of-west/)

[Deborah Ford](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/deborah-ford/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a29/deborah-ford-5148_family_well-i-declare-the-appalachian-dialect-o_543997.jpg)

> [Before the famine, which was in the 1840s, that was an emotional turning point... There are various documents showing how the Elizabethan…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frank-mccourt/before-the-famine-which-was-in-the-1840s-that-was-an-emotional/)

[Frank McCourt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frank-mccourt/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/df2/frank-mccourt-2576_affection_before-the-famine-which-was-in-the-1840s_1034611.png)

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