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... Manx Gaelic , about which we know a good deal ( see below , ยงยง 46 , 100 ) . Since the seventeenth century Manx has had its own distinctive orthography , based on the orthographies of English and perhaps of Welsh [ Thomson ( 1960 ) 118 ] ...
... Manx Gaelic , about which we know a good deal ( see below , ยงยง 46 , 100 ) . Since the seventeenth century Manx has had its own distinctive orthography , based on the orthographies of English and perhaps of Welsh [ Thomson ( 1960 ) 118 ] ...
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... Manx Gaelic , the latter to Irish . In view of the number of important features shared by Scottish and Manx Gaelic but not found in Irish it is hardly possible to question Jack- son's hypothesis ; it seems likely , therefore , that the ...
... Manx Gaelic , the latter to Irish . In view of the number of important features shared by Scottish and Manx Gaelic but not found in Irish it is hardly possible to question Jack- son's hypothesis ; it seems likely , therefore , that the ...
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... Manx cur ' put ( ting ) ' -Manx g'ee ' eat ( ing ) ' - Manx g'ra ' speak ( ing ) ' The nearest English equivalent of the Gaelic verbal noun is the in- finitive ; if , therefore , any form of Irish had undergone developments similar to ...
... Manx cur ' put ( ting ) ' -Manx g'ee ' eat ( ing ) ' - Manx g'ra ' speak ( ing ) ' The nearest English equivalent of the Gaelic verbal noun is the in- finitive ; if , therefore , any form of Irish had undergone developments similar to ...
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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