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Page 179
... Irish footmen , if not in their own service in that of their friends or patrons . It is not clear in what circumstances the Irish costermongers , chimneysweeps and footmen came to England . No doubt some of the Englishmen who visited ...
... Irish footmen , if not in their own service in that of their friends or patrons . It is not clear in what circumstances the Irish costermongers , chimneysweeps and footmen came to England . No doubt some of the Englishmen who visited ...
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... Irish language on this type of Hiberno- English , we shall have to take into account the peculiarities of the Irish spoken in the same districts . Unfortunately the Irish of the east coast is the worst documented of any of the dialects of ...
... Irish language on this type of Hiberno- English , we shall have to take into account the peculiarities of the Irish spoken in the same districts . Unfortunately the Irish of the east coast is the worst documented of any of the dialects of ...
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... Irish actors regularly playing Irish parts on the London stage [ Bartley ( 1954 ) 242-3 ] , we also find fewer and fewer indications of pronunciation and usage in the printed plays . If we have to deal with " Stage Irish " at all , it ...
... Irish actors regularly playing Irish parts on the London stage [ Bartley ( 1954 ) 242-3 ] , we also find fewer and fewer indications of pronunciation and usage in the printed plays . If we have to deal with " Stage Irish " at all , it ...
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THE HISTORICAL BACKGROUND II | 11 |
DESCRIPTION OF THE TEXTS | 31 |
TEXTS | 76 |
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Aphorismical Discovery back vowel bilingual speaker Bog-Witticisms Brave Irishman Brogue Captain consonant dear Joy Dermot Derry dialects diphthong Dobson doubt Dublin ejaculation England evidence final Fingall Fingallian front vowels haue 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 medial Middle English 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 Standard English Stukeley Teague Teigue tell texts Thomas Thomas Stukeley thou Trooparr Ubique XII Ulster unvoicing usage verb viii Welsh Embassador write construction xvii xviii xxii xxiii xxiv xxvi xxvii