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... Similar spellings in the work of other writers indicate the dialectal survival of / u / in words which in StE had / ^ / : hoondrad ' hundred ' ( xv 57 ) , goon ' gun ' ( xxvii 3 & c . ) . The same pronunciation is presumably indicated ...
... Similar spellings in the work of other writers indicate the dialectal survival of / u / in words which in StE had / ^ / : hoondrad ' hundred ' ( xv 57 ) , goon ' gun ' ( xxvii 3 & c . ) . The same pronunciation is presumably indicated ...
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... similar pronunciations 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 ...
... similar pronunciations 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 ...
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... similar development in Irish and Manx Gaelic , but nothing systematic . In Manx Gaelic there is a tendency for intervocal voiceless stops to become voiced [ Jackson ( 1955 ) 65 ] . No such change occurs in native Irish words , but a similar ...
... similar development in Irish and Manx Gaelic , but nothing systematic . In Manx Gaelic there is a tendency for intervocal voiceless stops to become voiced [ Jackson ( 1955 ) 65 ] . No such change occurs in native Irish words , but a similar ...
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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