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... fact very difficult for Irish - speakers to pronounce / z 3 / , since all they have to do is to apply voicing to the phonemes / s S / which they already possess ; and in fact the inventory of consonant phonemes in present - day Hiberno ...
... fact very difficult for Irish - speakers to pronounce / z 3 / , since all they have to do is to apply voicing to the phonemes / s S / which they already possess ; and in fact the inventory of consonant phonemes in present - day Hiberno ...
Page 251
... fact this spelling is used only before front vowels . It seems impossible to resolve this conflict of evidence in ... fact that many of our texts use the spelling sh for / s / even in the neighbourhood of back vowels : one possible ...
... fact this spelling is used only before front vowels . It seems impossible to resolve this conflict of evidence in ... fact that many of our texts use the spelling sh for / s / even in the neighbourhood of back vowels : one possible ...
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... fact remains that , however strong his incentive to use " Stage Irish " might be , no writer could do so unless a tradition of “ Stage Irish ” already existed , and it is far from easy to understand how such a tradition could have come ...
... fact remains that , however strong his incentive to use " Stage Irish " might be , no writer could do so unless a tradition of “ Stage Irish ” already existed , and it is far from easy to understand how such a tradition could have come ...
Contents
THE HISTORICAL BACKGROUND II | 11 |
DESCRIPTION OF THE TEXTS | 31 |
TEXTS | 76 |
Copyright | |
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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