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... words appear to have postponed stress : a - ceers ' acres ' fa - deers ' fathers ' ( 47 ) , va - teer ' water ' : fa - deer ' father ' ( 93 , 105 ) . So far all the words in question have been English words , but the next rhyme ...
... words appear to have postponed stress : a - ceers ' acres ' fa - deers ' fathers ' ( 47 ) , va - teer ' water ' : fa - deer ' father ' ( 93 , 105 ) . So far all the words in question have been English words , but the next rhyme ...
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... words affected are of Norman- French origin , and in all but one of these the postponed stress might in theory be due to the survival of the original stress ; but in the native words the second syllable had never been stressed . The words ...
... words affected are of Norman- French origin , and in all but one of these the postponed stress might in theory be due to the survival of the original stress ; but in the native words the second syllable had never been stressed . The words ...
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... words passed from Irish into English : there are , for instance , only five Irish words in the whole of the Kildare Poems [ Heuser ( 1904 ) 12 ] . Until about 1600 the only Irish words with any wide currency in English were those which ...
... words passed from Irish into English : there are , for instance , only five Irish words in the whole of the Kildare Poems [ Heuser ( 1904 ) 12 ] . Until about 1600 the only Irish words with any wide currency in English were those which ...
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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