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... present he does be distinct from the punctual present he is . It is probable that the use of the verb " to do " as a consue- tudinal auxiliary results from an association between this verb , as used in English in negative ...
... present he does be distinct from the punctual present he is . It is probable that the use of the verb " to do " as a consue- tudinal auxiliary results from an association between this verb , as used in English in negative ...
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... present tense is used in Irish , and this usage is some- times reflected in Hiberno - English , as in he's dead and buried these ten years ' he has been dead and buried for ten years ' ( xxvii 115 ) . The only verbs which in Irish have ...
... present tense is used in Irish , and this usage is some- times reflected in Hiberno - English , as in he's dead and buried these ten years ' he has been dead and buried for ten years ' ( xxvii 115 ) . The only verbs which in Irish have ...
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... present - day Hiberno - English by the literal translation he is after writing he has ( just ) written . ' Constructions in which after is followed by the present participle are fairly numerous in our texts , but only one of them is ...
... present - day Hiberno - English by the literal translation he is after writing he has ( just ) written . ' Constructions in which after is followed by the present participle are fairly numerous in our texts , but only one of them is ...
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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