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... English orthography from accurately representing his perception , and may ... English . Boswell tells us [ Life of Dr Johnson , 23rd March 1776 ] that Dr Johnson ... Standard English , and there would be no point in devising a variant ...
... English orthography from accurately representing his perception , and may ... English . Boswell tells us [ Life of Dr Johnson , 23rd March 1776 ] that Dr Johnson ... Standard English , and there would be no point in devising a variant ...
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... standard English , the greater part of the gentry and scholars were influenced by the speech of the commonpeople ( i.e. they spoke ' modified Stan- dard ' ) , and finally that in the far West and the North the standard did not apply at ...
... standard English , the greater part of the gentry and scholars were influenced by the speech of the commonpeople ( i.e. they spoke ' modified Stan- dard ' ) , and finally that in the far West and the North the standard did not apply at ...
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... standard spellings found in the texts ; on the other hand to give the meaning of every word or form which might ... English word ( that is , if its abnormality is phonological ) it is followed by the sign and the standard English ...
... standard spellings found in the texts ; on the other hand to give the meaning of every word or form which might ... English word ( that is , if its abnormality is phonological ) it is followed by the sign and the standard English ...
Contents
THE HISTORICAL BACKGROUND II | 11 |
DESCRIPTION OF THE TEXTS | 31 |
TEXTS | 76 |
Copyright | |
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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