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... recorded the existence of 1,500 Irish - speakers in Co. Meath , 2,500 in Co. Louth , and nearly 10,000 in Cos . Cavan , Monaghan and Armagh . As late as 1931 Professor Wilhelm Dögen of Berlin was able to make recordings of the Irish of ...
... recorded the existence of 1,500 Irish - speakers in Co. Meath , 2,500 in Co. Louth , and nearly 10,000 in Cos . Cavan , Monaghan and Armagh . As late as 1931 Professor Wilhelm Dögen of Berlin was able to make recordings of the Irish of ...
Page 213
... recorded in the StE spelling . The development whereby ME before / 1 / became a diphthong identical with the one derived from ME ū [ Dobson ( 1968 ) §169 ] is indicated by the spelling sould ' sold ' ( xxiii 97 ) , and no doubt by auld ...
... recorded in the StE spelling . The development whereby ME before / 1 / became a diphthong identical with the one derived from ME ū [ Dobson ( 1968 ) §169 ] is indicated by the spelling sould ' sold ' ( xxiii 97 ) , and no doubt by auld ...
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... recorded ; it has some similarity in form and meaning to whoop , recorded by NED from 1568 as " an exclamation ... expressing excitement , surprise , derision , exultation , incitement , etc. " §127 . In our texts the only Irish oath of ...
... recorded ; it has some similarity in form and meaning to whoop , recorded by NED from 1568 as " an exclamation ... expressing excitement , surprise , derision , exultation , incitement , etc. " §127 . In our texts the only Irish oath of ...
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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