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... recorded the existence of 1,500 Irish - speakers in Co. Meath , 2,500 in Co. Louth , and nearly 10,000 in Cos . Cavan , Monaghan and Armagh . As late as 1931 Professor Wilhelm Dögen of Berlin was able to make recordings of the Irish of ...
... recorded the existence of 1,500 Irish - speakers in Co. Meath , 2,500 in Co. Louth , and nearly 10,000 in Cos . Cavan , Monaghan and Armagh . As late as 1931 Professor Wilhelm Dögen of Berlin was able to make recordings of the Irish of ...
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... recorded in the StE spelling . The development whereby ME ¿ before / 1 / became a diphthong identical with the one derived from ME u [ Dobson ( 1968 ) §169 ] is indicated by the spelling sould ' sold ' ( xxiii 97 ) , and no doubt by ...
... recorded in the StE spelling . The development whereby ME ¿ before / 1 / became a diphthong identical with the one derived from ME u [ Dobson ( 1968 ) §169 ] is indicated by the spelling sould ' sold ' ( xxiii 97 ) , and no doubt by ...
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... recorded in the seventeenth century [ Dobson ( 1968 ) $ 435 ] . A similar development is reflected in the rhyme sences : vench is ( xiii 11 ) , and the Aphorismical Discovery has fenche ' fence ' . Forms in which the ch is initial are ...
... recorded in the seventeenth century [ Dobson ( 1968 ) $ 435 ] . A similar development is reflected in the rhyme sences : vench is ( xiii 11 ) , and the Aphorismical Discovery has fenche ' fence ' . Forms in which the ch is initial are ...
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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