Spoken English in Ireland, 1600-1740: Twenty-seven Representative Texts |
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... English " into the arms of the native Irish : the two parties were now united by their religion against the Protestant " New English " , and the symbol of the Catholic religion was the Irish language . As we have already seen , some of ...
... English " into the arms of the native Irish : the two parties were now united by their religion against the Protestant " New English " , and the symbol of the Catholic religion was the Irish language . As we have already seen , some of ...
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... English by reference to the system of Irish ; the English - speaker listening to him perceives and interprets his utterance by reference to the system of English . Our case is in fact more complicated than the one en- visaged by ...
... English by reference to the system of Irish ; the English - speaker listening to him perceives and interprets his utterance by reference to the system of English . Our case is in fact more complicated than the one en- visaged by ...
Page 254
... English , but as the currency of French diminished , those who had been brought up to speak it were obliged to make more and more use of the English language , in which they were far from expert : it often happened that they did not ...
... English , but as the currency of French diminished , those who had been brought up to speak it were obliged to make more and more use of the English language , in which they were far from expert : it often happened that they did not ...
Contents
THE HISTORICAL BACKGROUND II | 11 |
DESCRIPTION OF THE TEXTS | 31 |
TEXTS | 76 |
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Aphorismical Discovery aund back vowel bilingual speakers Bog-Witticisms Brogue Captain consonant dear Joy Dermot Derry dialect diphthong Dobson doubt Dublin Dundalk England evidence final Fingall Fingallian front vowels haue Hiberno Hiberno-English Honest Whore idiom instances Ireland Irish Hudibras Irish language Irish Masque Irish neutral Irish words King loanwords long vowel maake Manx Gaelic meaning Munster Irish Nees non-standard spellings noun oaths occurs origin palatal palatal consonant Patrick phonemes phrase play postponed stress printed probably pronoun pronunciation Purgatorium Hibernicum rapparees reference reflect represent rhyme scene Scottish Scottish Gaelic secondary language seems seventeenth century sh-spellings shelf Shoul Sir John Oldcastle speech Stage Irish Standard English Stukeley Teague tell texts Thomas Thomas Stukeley thou Ubique XII Ulster unvoicing usage verb viii Welsh Embassador write construction xvii xviii xxiii xxiv xxvi xxvii