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... fact very difficult for Irish - speakers to pronounce / z 3 / , since all they have to do is to apply voicing to the phonemes / s S / which they already possess ; and in fact the inventory of consonant phonemes in present - day Hiberno ...
... fact very difficult for Irish - speakers to pronounce / z 3 / , since all they have to do is to apply voicing to the phonemes / s S / which they already possess ; and in fact the inventory of consonant phonemes in present - day Hiberno ...
Page 248
... fact the English ending -et normally appears as -éad in Irish , as in the recent ticéad ' ticket ' . Voicing in such cases is no doubt due to the fact that final unsupported voiceless stops do not occur in native Irish words , though ...
... fact the English ending -et normally appears as -éad in Irish , as in the recent ticéad ' ticket ' . Voicing in such cases is no doubt due to the fact that final unsupported voiceless stops do not occur in native Irish words , though ...
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... fact remains that , however strong his incentive to use " Stage Irish " might be , no writer could do so unless a tradition of " Stage Irish " already existed , and it is far from easy to understand how such a tradition could have come ...
... fact remains that , however strong his incentive to use " Stage Irish " might be , no writer could do so unless a tradition of " Stage Irish " already existed , and it is far from easy to understand how such a tradition could have come ...
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