Show pure english defined as of elizabethan era the oft quoted saying that 1 the purest english Is spoken in du dublin blin particularly at trinity college Is 13 of unknown origin says the magazine inverness scotland and belfast ireland are often linked with dublin as places where exceptionally tio nally pure and correct english Is spoken by the inhabitants the saying probably means little more than that the common speech in these places contains an unusually large number of elizabethan words now regarded as archaic or classical in england and the united sta states 3 ta speech in small countries or 1 isolated communities seldom changes as rapidly as it does in the more populous centers both dublin and belfast were settled by colonists from england and the speech of their des descendants cendan ts did not undergo the same development that the language of the parent country did the english language of the periods ot of elizabeth and king james was as it were kept in cold storage in ireland and many words and phrases were retained in everyday speech which became obsolete in england thus it happens that the language of belfast and dublin more nearly approaches the language in use dar ing En In glands golden era of literature era ture |