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... common with Fingallian , partly because of their geographical contiguity ( Dublin on the southern edge of Fingall , Dundalk not far from its northern limits ) , partly because of the probable migration of the people of Fingall to the ...
... common with Fingallian , partly because of their geographical contiguity ( Dublin on the southern edge of Fingall , Dundalk not far from its northern limits ) , partly because of the probable migration of the people of Fingall to the ...
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... common in the seventeenth century [ NED s.v. ] . §112 . The voicing of voiceless spirants is less rare , though still not common . Some of our texts seem to show voicing of initial / m / . As we have seen ( §79 ) the normal spelling for ...
... common in the seventeenth century [ NED s.v. ] . §112 . The voicing of voiceless spirants is less rare , though still not common . Some of our texts seem to show voicing of initial / m / . As we have seen ( §79 ) the normal spelling for ...
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... common in the earliest texts ; sound ' sounds ' ( iii 26 ) , call ' calls ' ( iii 47 ) , say ' says ' ( iv 12 ) , cut ' cuts ' ( iv 40 ) , loue ' loves ' ( iv 41 ) , bring ' brings ' ( vi 70 ) , ale ' ails ' ( xii 10 ) , do ' does ...
... common in the earliest texts ; sound ' sounds ' ( iii 26 ) , call ' calls ' ( iii 47 ) , say ' says ' ( iv 12 ) , cut ' cuts ' ( iv 40 ) , loue ' loves ' ( iv 41 ) , bring ' brings ' ( vi 70 ) , ale ' ails ' ( xii 10 ) , do ' does ...
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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