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... non - standard spellings in the texts . The rhymes in verse texts can tell us no more than that two sounds were pronounced in the same way , without giving any clue to the quality of the common sound ; such evidence is certainly ...
... non - standard spellings in the texts . The rhymes in verse texts can tell us no more than that two sounds were pronounced in the same way , without giving any clue to the quality of the common sound ; such evidence is certainly ...
Page 206
... Standard English . The only non - standard spelling of a word in which ME a has given StE / D : / is faarme ' warm ' ( xx 28 & c . ) ; since in this text aa nor- mally corresponds to StE / æ / , the StE lengthening and retraction has ...
... Standard English . The only non - standard spelling of a word in which ME a has given StE / D : / is faarme ' warm ' ( xx 28 & c . ) ; since in this text aa nor- mally corresponds to StE / æ / , the StE lengthening and retraction has ...
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... standard orthography , and their own pronunciation was no guide to the choice of the correct symbol . It is not at all surprising , therefore , that well over half of the non- standard spellings of this type in our texts are to be found ...
... standard orthography , and their own pronunciation was no guide to the choice of the correct symbol . It is not at all surprising , therefore , that well over half of the non- standard spellings of this type in our texts are to be found ...
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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