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... normal , and fronted and raised realizations are rare : we might expect that ME ā would be / a : / everywhere except along the east coast , and the scarcity of texts reflecting this sound is confirmation of the conjecture that the ...
... normal , and fronted and raised realizations are rare : we might expect that ME ā would be / a : / everywhere except along the east coast , and the scarcity of texts reflecting this sound is confirmation of the conjecture that the ...
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... normal in present - day Hiberno- English . There are a few instances in our texts : shuttene ' shutting❜ ( i 37 ) , coggin ' cogging ' ( vii 137 ) , housh - kepin ' house - keeping ' ( xv 44 ) , livein ' living ' ( xv 44 ) , stockins ...
... normal in present - day Hiberno- English . There are a few instances in our texts : shuttene ' shutting❜ ( i 37 ) , coggin ' cogging ' ( vii 137 ) , housh - kepin ' house - keeping ' ( xv 44 ) , livein ' living ' ( xv 44 ) , stockins ...
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... normal tenses , even when the concept of continuing action ( the normal implication of the " progressive " tenses ) is lacking . In some of our texts we do indeed find such formations . Many of the instances are complicated by other ...
... normal tenses , even when the concept of continuing action ( the normal implication of the " progressive " tenses ) is lacking . In some of our texts we do indeed find such formations . Many of the instances are complicated by other ...
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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