Spoken English in Ireland, 1600-1740: Twenty-seven Representative Texts |
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... evidence , we are perhaps entitled to assume that English had a con- tinuous history , however attenuated , in the towns , since municipal records continued to be kept in English . There is ample documentary evidence for the survival of ...
... evidence , we are perhaps entitled to assume that English had a con- tinuous history , however attenuated , in the towns , since municipal records continued to be kept in English . There is ample documentary evidence for the survival of ...
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... evidence to show whether or not a similar system prevailed in east - coast Irish . §18 . The evidence for the occurrence of postponed stress in Hiberno - English consists partly of rhymes and partly of non- standard spellings . In verse ...
... evidence to show whether or not a similar system prevailed in east - coast Irish . §18 . The evidence for the occurrence of postponed stress in Hiberno - English consists partly of rhymes and partly of non- standard spellings . In verse ...
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... evidence which enables us to specify certain features as characteristic of the dialect . All the historical sources from the sixteenth century onwards agree that there was a strong likeness between Fingallian and the dialect of the two ...
... evidence which enables us to specify certain features as characteristic of the dialect . All the historical sources from the sixteenth century onwards agree that there was a strong likeness between Fingallian and the dialect of the two ...
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