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... meaning ' a botched up charge ' and as a verb meaning ' to patch up an accusation ' . NED suggests that these meanings are derived from the verb clamp , but this seems scarcely possible , since clamp appears much later than clamper . Ir ...
... meaning ' a botched up charge ' and as a verb meaning ' to patch up an accusation ' . NED suggests that these meanings are derived from the verb clamp , but this seems scarcely possible , since clamp appears much later than clamper . Ir ...
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... meanings here : ' My father charged me to come and see him when he had died ' , with the present - day meaning of after , or ' When he was dying my father charged me to come and see him . ' The latter meaning seems the more likely , for ...
... meanings here : ' My father charged me to come and see him when he had died ' , with the present - day meaning of after , or ' When he was dying my father charged me to come and see him . ' The latter meaning seems the more likely , for ...
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... meaning ( that is , if its abnormality is morphological or semantic ) the meaning is given between quotation marks . Sometimes , of course , there is more than one abnormality in a single form , and in such cases both devices may be ...
... meaning ( that is , if its abnormality is morphological or semantic ) the meaning is given between quotation marks . Sometimes , of course , there is more than one abnormality in a single form , and in such cases both devices may be ...
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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