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... 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 ) , except in so far as a non - phonemic glide might develop between a vowel ...
... 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 ) , except in so far as a non - phonemic glide might develop between a vowel ...
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... front vowels , and those in which the occurrence of such spellings is not limited in this way ; ME a and ā must be counted among the front vowels , since texts which never have sh - spellings in the neighbourhood of o- and u - sounds ...
... front vowels , and those in which the occurrence of such spellings is not limited in this way ; ME a and ā must be counted among the front vowels , since texts which never have sh - spellings in the neighbourhood of o- and u - sounds ...
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... front vowel , palatalization is not unexpected . The words in question are business , cousin , desire , dozen , greasy , isn't , present , presently , preserve , prison , prisoner , wiser . Final / z / is also common , both as an ...
... front vowel , palatalization is not unexpected . The words in question are business , cousin , desire , dozen , greasy , isn't , present , presently , preserve , prison , prisoner , wiser . Final / z / is also common , both as an ...
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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