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Page 174
... middle of the sixteenth century , and continued to do so until the middle of the seventeenth ; a scientific interest in the study of phonetics appeared at the beginning of the seventeenth century and gained momentum until it attracted ...
... middle of the sixteenth century , and continued to do so until the middle of the seventeenth ; a scientific interest in the study of phonetics appeared at the beginning of the seventeenth century and gained momentum until it attracted ...
Page 199
... Middle English , and would have tended to run two pairs of them together . There can be little doubt that ME ā would be equated with CG á , but after this the doubt begins . Our clearest guide is to be found in the many words ...
... Middle English , and would have tended to run two pairs of them together . There can be little doubt that ME ā would be equated with CG á , but after this the doubt begins . Our clearest guide is to be found in the many words ...
Page 325
... Middle English in general preserved the original stress of words borrowed from Norman French , but its occurrence in the dialect of the Wexford baronies is well documented ; because of the wide geographical separation of Fingall and ...
... Middle English in general preserved the original stress of words borrowed from Norman French , but its occurrence in the dialect of the Wexford baronies is well documented ; because of the wide geographical separation of Fingall and ...
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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