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... later . She then married an officer named Carroll , who eighteen months later was killed in a duel . Abandon- ing matrimony as a means of livelihood she now turned to the theatre and made a living by acting and by writing plays . In ...
... later . She then married an officer named Carroll , who eighteen months later was killed in a duel . Abandon- ing matrimony as a means of livelihood she now turned to the theatre and made a living by acting and by writing plays . In ...
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... later English develop- ment / e : / . There is a small overlap in the distribution of the two major developments in ... later than that - though obviously earlier than the earliest texts which show its effects . The English of those who ...
... later English develop- ment / e : / . There is a small overlap in the distribution of the two major developments in ... later than that - though obviously earlier than the earliest texts which show its effects . The English of those who ...
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... Later we find by my soul , faith , and the devil take me ; later still , devil take me and upon my soul . ( Throughout the period we find by St Patrick and a pox upon it . ) No doubt some of these oaths merely reflect fashions current ...
... Later we find by my soul , faith , and the devil take me ; later still , devil take me and upon my soul . ( Throughout the period we find by St Patrick and a pox upon it . ) No doubt some of these oaths merely reflect fashions current ...
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