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... kind father for you . And what breakfast do you take in the country ? B. Why , sometimes sowins , and sometimes stirabout , and in summer we have the best frawhawns in all the county . A. What kind of a man is your neighbor Squire Dolt ...
... kind father for you . And what breakfast do you take in the country ? B. Why , sometimes sowins , and sometimes stirabout , and in summer we have the best frawhawns in all the county . A. What kind of a man is your neighbor Squire Dolt ...
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... kind of evidence he relied on , and his conclusions have been vigorously contested by Piatt [ ( 1933 ) 21-2 ] . The accentuation of Manx Gaelic is curious and distinctive ; it combines elements of both the southern and the northern ...
... kind of evidence he relied on , and his conclusions have been vigorously contested by Piatt [ ( 1933 ) 21-2 ] . The accentuation of Manx Gaelic is curious and distinctive ; it combines elements of both the southern and the northern ...
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... kind of health does he enjoy ? ' , and the meaning is quite different from that of the English get one's health ' recover one's health ' [ NED s.v. get 12 ] . The idiom it is kind father for you ( xxvi 19 ) literally translates Ir . is ...
... kind of health does he enjoy ? ' , and the meaning is quite different from that of the English get one's health ' recover one's health ' [ NED s.v. get 12 ] . The idiom it is kind father for you ( xxvi 19 ) literally translates Ir . is ...
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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