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Page 187
... period , or that a period of bilingualism was necessarily followed by permanent monoglot speech . The linguistic history of the east coast of Ireland is very complex as we have seen ( above , pp . 23–9 ) , periods of bilingual- ism in ...
... period , or that a period of bilingualism was necessarily followed by permanent monoglot speech . The linguistic history of the east coast of Ireland is very complex as we have seen ( above , pp . 23–9 ) , periods of bilingual- ism in ...
Page 199
... period , and different equivalences might have prevailed if the acquisition of the English language did not occur until the transitional period between Middle and Modern English , when the beginnings of the " Great Vowel Shift " had ...
... period , and different equivalences might have prevailed if the acquisition of the English language did not occur until the transitional period between Middle and Modern English , when the beginnings of the " Great Vowel Shift " had ...
Page 315
... period , and these are documented in §§ 127–32 . In the earliest period the favourite oaths were by my gossip's hand and the like , by God , by Christ , by my faith , i'faith , and so on . Later we find by my soul , faith , and the ...
... period , and these are documented in §§ 127–32 . In the earliest period the favourite oaths were by my gossip's hand and the like , by God , by Christ , by my faith , i'faith , and so on . Later we find by my soul , faith , and the ...
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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