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This conclusion may at first seem somewhat surprising , but it must be remembered that an interest in spelling and pronunciation was very much part of the climate of opinion in seventeenth - century England .
This conclusion may at first seem somewhat surprising , but it must be remembered that an interest in spelling and pronunciation was very much part of the climate of opinion in seventeenth - century England .
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At the end of the seventeenth century there were therefore six long vowel phonemes / i : e : a : D : 0 : u : / . 28. As well as ME ai and au , ME ou also underwent smoothing to identity with ME ğ , whose subsequent development it shared ...
At the end of the seventeenth century there were therefore six long vowel phonemes / i : e : a : D : 0 : u : / . 28. As well as ME ai and au , ME ou also underwent smoothing to identity with ME ğ , whose subsequent development it shared ...
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The form pottados ' potatoes ' ( xvi 53 ) is not an instance of the voicing of medial / t / : forms with d are common in the seventeenth century [ NED s.v. ] . §112 . The voicing of voiceless spirants is less rare , though still not ...
The form pottados ' potatoes ' ( xvi 53 ) is not an instance of the voicing of medial / t / : forms with d are common in the seventeenth century [ NED s.v. ] . §112 . The voicing of voiceless spirants is less rare , though still not ...
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Contents
THE HISTORICAL BACKGROUND | 11 |
DESCRIPTION OF THE TEXTS TEXTS I Captain Thomas Stukeley 15961605 | 31 |
Sir John Oldcastle 15991600 | 33 |
Copyright | |
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appears bilingual called Captain century common consonant construction dear dialect doubt Dublin early effect England English Enter evidence expected fact final Fingallian front Gaelic give hand Hiberno-English Hudibras indicate influence instances Ireland Irish Irishman John kind King known language later Letter look Lord Manx meaning Middle never non-standard normal occurs origin palatal Patrick perhaps period phrase play possible present printed probably pronunciation reason recorded reference reflect remained replaced represent rhyme scene seems seventeenth shelf short similar sounds speak speakers speech spelling Standard Standard English stress suggest sweet taken Teague tell texts Thomas thou usage verb viii vowel words writing written xvii xviii xxiv xxvii
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| Title | Spoken English in Ireland, 1600-1740: Twenty-seven Representative Texts Volume 5 of Dolmen texts Volume 9 of Irish writings from the age of Swift |
| Author | Alan Bliss |
| Editor | Alan Bliss |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Dolmen Press, 1979 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 28 Feb 2008 |
| ISBN | 0391011197, 9780391011199 |
| Length | 381 pages |
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