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... century ME ā was itself raised to identity with ME . About 1700 a dialectal pronunciation with / i : / was substituted for / e : / in all but a few of the words with ME & . At the end of the seventeenth century there were therefore six ...
... century ME ā was itself raised to identity with ME . About 1700 a dialectal pronunciation with / i : / was substituted for / e : / in all but a few of the words with ME & . At the end of the seventeenth century there were therefore six ...
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... century onwards [ Jordan ( 1934 ) §195 ] ; this pronunciation gradually made its way into Standard English , but in the seventeenth century was still dialectal or vulgar . The pronunciation / w / seems to have been common in Mediæval ...
... century onwards [ Jordan ( 1934 ) §195 ] ; this pronunciation gradually made its way into Standard English , but in the seventeenth century was still dialectal or vulgar . The pronunciation / w / seems to have been common in Mediæval ...
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... century onwards . In surveying these we may start with the people of Ireland , in general and in particular . 8143. In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries three different types of Irishman could be distinguished : the native Irish ...
... century onwards . In surveying these we may start with the people of Ireland , in general and in particular . 8143. In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries three different types of Irishman could be distinguished : the native Irish ...
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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