Spoken English in Ireland, 1600-1740: Twenty-seven Representative Texts |
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... verbs has in any case a consuetudinal meaning ; in the Irish verb " to be " the ending - ( e ) ann is found only in the consue- tudinal present bidheann , not in the punctual present tá ; the auxiliary " to do " would therefore come to ...
... verbs has in any case a consuetudinal meaning ; in the Irish verb " to be " the ending - ( e ) ann is found only in the consue- tudinal present bidheann , not in the punctual present tá ; the auxiliary " to do " would therefore come to ...
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... verbs which in Irish have a ( compound ) perfect tense are verbs of motion , and ( as in many other languages ) the perfect is formed , not with the verb " to have " as in English , but with the verb " to be " and the past participle ...
... verbs which in Irish have a ( compound ) perfect tense are verbs of motion , and ( as in many other languages ) the perfect is formed , not with the verb " to have " as in English , but with the verb " to be " and the past participle ...
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... verb " to do " for the verb " to be " and make good seventeenth- century English ; the scalded child does fear the fire and she did go lame would have been quite acceptable . In other instances , how- ever , the meaning is plainly that ...
... verb " to do " for the verb " to be " and make good seventeenth- century English ; the scalded child does fear the fire and she did go lame would have been quite acceptable . In other instances , how- ever , the meaning is plainly that ...
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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