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... remained the language of the vast majority of the population . Norman French soon began to decline in significance , in spite of its value as a kind of lingua franca current in all parts of the Norman realm , in Normandy , in England ...
... remained the language of the vast majority of the population . Norman French soon began to decline in significance , in spite of its value as a kind of lingua franca current in all parts of the Norman realm , in Normandy , in England ...
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... remained relatively peaceful , and travel to England became a normal undertaking for the better - off . It is now that we meet for the first time a new figure in the plays , that of the Irish fortune - hunter , whose philosophy is ...
... remained relatively peaceful , and travel to England became a normal undertaking for the better - off . It is now that we meet for the first time a new figure in the plays , that of the Irish fortune - hunter , whose philosophy is ...
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... remained ; in Irish , however , the five short vowel phonemes were reduced to three at some date not easily established , but probably towards the end of the seventeenth century , and therefore too late to concern us ( below , §74 ) ...
... remained ; in Irish , however , the five short vowel phonemes were reduced to three at some date not easily established , but probably towards the end of the seventeenth century , and therefore too late to concern us ( below , §74 ) ...
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