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... origin of the " Bad Quartos " is still a matter of controversy ; it seems likely that most of them were based on memorial reconstruction of versions of the plays cut for the theatre . If this is the origin of the quarto Henry V , the ...
... origin of the " Bad Quartos " is still a matter of controversy ; it seems likely that most of them were based on memorial reconstruction of versions of the plays cut for the theatre . If this is the origin of the quarto Henry V , the ...
Page 298
... origin of the is write construction seems clear enough , but the origin of some of the peculiarities which accompany it is not so clear . The omission of the relative pronoun is intelligible in terms of Irish usage , since the Irish ...
... origin of the is write construction seems clear enough , but the origin of some of the peculiarities which accompany it is not so clear . The omission of the relative pronoun is intelligible in terms of Irish usage , since the Irish ...
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... origin . Stanihurst tells us ( above , §16 ) that postponed stress in polysyllabic words was a characteristic of the dialect of Forth , and this observation is confirmed by Barnes ; though Stani- hurst's words leave some doubt whether ...
... origin . Stanihurst tells us ( above , §16 ) that postponed stress in polysyllabic words was a characteristic of the dialect of Forth , and this observation is confirmed by Barnes ; though Stani- hurst's words leave some doubt whether ...
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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