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Page 194
... short a instead of the original ME à or au ; the original stressed forms are implied by the spellings hauve ( xv 43 & c . ) , hate ( xviii 8 & c . ) , shaul ( xv 55 ) , shaut ( xv 47 ) , and by the rhyme . have her favour ( xiii 105 ) ...
... short a instead of the original ME à or au ; the original stressed forms are implied by the spellings hauve ( xv 43 & c . ) , hate ( xviii 8 & c . ) , shaul ( xv 55 ) , shaut ( xv 47 ) , and by the rhyme . have her favour ( xiii 105 ) ...
Page 198
... short vowels , i e a o u , and five long vowels , í é á ó ú ; there were also certain diphthongs resulting from the vocalization of spirants , but with these we are not now concerned . The short vowels in general remained ; in Irish ...
... short vowels , i e a o u , and five long vowels , í é á ó ú ; there were also certain diphthongs resulting from the vocalization of spirants , but with these we are not now concerned . The short vowels in general remained ; in Irish ...
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... short vowels tended to change their articulation to conform with that of a following consonant , so that a short back vowel before a palatal consonant was replaced by the corresponding front vowel , and a short front vowel before a ...
... short vowels tended to change their articulation to conform with that of a following consonant , so that a short back vowel before a palatal consonant was replaced by the corresponding front vowel , and a short front vowel before a ...
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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