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... consonant was never followed by a back vowel or a neutral consonant by a front one . A consonant normally had no influence on a preceding vowel ( such forms as meic ( c ) , mic , genitive of mac ( c ) ' son ' , are quite exceptional ) ...
... consonant was never followed by a back vowel or a neutral consonant by a front one . A consonant normally had no influence on a preceding vowel ( such forms as meic ( c ) , mic , genitive of mac ( c ) ' son ' , are quite exceptional ) ...
Page 246
... consonant may have survived . There is no clear evidence of the use of forms with an initial voiceless consonant in Mediæval Hiberno - English : The English Conquest of Ireland has a number of instances of day ' they ' , and inverted ...
... consonant may have survived . There is no clear evidence of the use of forms with an initial voiceless consonant in Mediæval Hiberno - English : The English Conquest of Ireland has a number of instances of day ' they ' , and inverted ...
Page 250
... consonants §116 . It is somewhat surprising that there is so little trace in our texts of a feature conspicuous in the earlier loanwords in Irish , the attribution to foreign ... consonant was effectively dictated by the articulation 250.
... consonants §116 . It is somewhat surprising that there is so little trace in our texts of a feature conspicuous in the earlier loanwords in Irish , the attribution to foreign ... consonant was effectively dictated by the articulation 250.
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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