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... remained the language of the vast majority of the population . Norman French soon began to decline in significance , in spite of its value as a kind of lingua franca current in all parts of the Norman realm , in Normandy , in England ...
... remained the language of the vast majority of the population . Norman French soon began to decline in significance , in spite of its value as a kind of lingua franca current in all parts of the Norman realm , in Normandy , in England ...
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... remained ; in Irish , however , the five short vowel phonemes were reduced to three at some date not easily established , but probably towards the end of the seventeenth century , and therefore too late to concern us ( below , ยง74 ) ...
... remained ; in Irish , however , the five short vowel phonemes were reduced to three at some date not easily established , but probably towards the end of the seventeenth century , and therefore too late to concern us ( below , ยง74 ) ...
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... remained dialectal or vulgar [ Dobson ( 1968 ) $ 401 ( c ) ] . The spellings conferrmant ' preferment ' ( xv 38 ) , micharr ' micher ' ( xx 5 ) and trooparr ' trooper ' ( xx 6 & c . ) may be intended to suggest an articulation of / r ...
... remained dialectal or vulgar [ Dobson ( 1968 ) $ 401 ( c ) ] . The spellings conferrmant ' preferment ' ( xv 38 ) , micharr ' micher ' ( xx 5 ) and trooparr ' trooper ' ( xx 6 & c . ) may be intended to suggest an articulation of / r ...
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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