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... occurs twice more in The Irish Hudibras , where it is glossed " Clowns , Inhabitants of the County of Monaghan " ; it also occurs six times in Purgatorium Hibernicum . Apart from the fact that Monaghan was at this time a remote rural ...
... occurs twice more in The Irish Hudibras , where it is glossed " Clowns , Inhabitants of the County of Monaghan " ; it also occurs six times in Purgatorium Hibernicum . Apart from the fact that Monaghan was at this time a remote rural ...
Page 266
... occurs as a generic name for an Irishman only once in our texts ( xxiii 30 ) , but Teague is the commonest personal name for an Irishman : it occurs in this function six times ( XIV , XVII , XIX , XX , XXI , XXII ) , compared with ...
... occurs as a generic name for an Irishman only once in our texts ( xxiii 30 ) , but Teague is the commonest personal name for an Irishman : it occurs in this function six times ( XIV , XVII , XIX , XX , XXI , XXII ) , compared with ...
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... occurs in less than a third of our texts , and it is interesting to examine which these are . If we leave aside the anomalous variants discussed in §196 , the construction is found in eight texts . It is particularly common in the two ...
... occurs in less than a third of our texts , and it is interesting to examine which these are . If we leave aside the anomalous variants discussed in §196 , the construction is found in eight texts . It is particularly common in the two ...
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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