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Page 196
... instances of postponed stress occur in the passage from Purgatorium Hibernicum printed above , though there are some in other parts of the work ; but there are plentiful instances in the other two pieces . Postponed stress appears to ...
... instances of postponed stress occur in the passage from Purgatorium Hibernicum printed above , though there are some in other parts of the work ; but there are plentiful instances in the other two pieces . Postponed stress appears to ...
Page 298
... instances of the is write construction are characterized by other peculiarities . There are three instances in which the verb " to be " is followed , not by an infinitive , but by a finite form of the verb : Fo ish tat ishe coughes ...
... instances of the is write construction are characterized by other peculiarities . There are three instances in which the verb " to be " is followed , not by an infinitive , but by a finite form of the verb : Fo ish tat ishe coughes ...
Page 301
... instance the meaning is not self - evident , and can only be elucidated by the parallelism with the instances at which we have already looked : Dere be non , dat be after coming in de Nort , but get ... ( xx 97 ) There can be no serious ...
... instance the meaning is not self - evident , and can only be elucidated by the parallelism with the instances at which we have already looked : Dere be non , dat be after coming in de Nort , but get ... ( xx 97 ) There can be no serious ...
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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