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... English orthography from accurately representing his perception , and may ... English . Boswell tells us [ Life of Dr Johnson , 23rd March 1776 ] that Dr Johnson ... Standard English , and there would be no point in devising a variant ...
... English orthography from accurately representing his perception , and may ... English . Boswell tells us [ Life of Dr Johnson , 23rd March 1776 ] that Dr Johnson ... Standard English , and there would be no point in devising a variant ...
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... standard spellings ( even if there were any unambiguous ways of doing it , which seems unlikely ) to indicate pronunciations in use among any substantial body of speakers of Standard English . As we have seen ( ยง1 ) , there is reason to ...
... standard spellings ( even if there were any unambiguous ways of doing it , which seems unlikely ) to indicate pronunciations in use among any substantial body of speakers of Standard English . As we have seen ( ยง1 ) , there is reason to ...
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... standard English , the greater part of the gentry and scholars were influenced by the speech of the commonpeople ( i.e. they spoke ' modified Stan- dard ' ) , and finally that in the far West and the North the standard did not apply at ...
... standard English , the greater part of the gentry and scholars were influenced by the speech of the commonpeople ( i.e. they spoke ' modified Stan- dard ' ) , and finally that in the far West and the North the standard did not apply at ...
Contents
THE HISTORICAL BACKGROUND | 9 |
DESCRIPTION OF THE TEXTS TEXTS | 31 |
Captain Thomas Stukeley 15961605 | 77 |
Copyright | |
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Aphorismical Discovery back vowel bilingual speakers Bog-Witticisms Captain consonant dialects diphthong Dobson doubt Dublin Dunton ejaculation England evidence final Fingall Fingallian front vowels Hiberno Hiberno-English Honest Whore instances Ireland Irish Hudibras Irish language Irish Masque Irish neutral Irish words lengthening loanwords long vowel Manx Gaelic meaning medial Middle English Munster Irish non-standard spellings noun oaths occurs origin palatal palatal consonant Patrick phonemes phrase play postponed stress present-day Hiberno-English primary language printed probably pronounced pronunciation Purgatorium Hibernicum rapparees referred reflect represent rhyme Scottish Scottish Gaelic secondary language seems seventeenth century sh-spellings shelf short vowel shortening Shoul speech Standard English Stukeley syllable Teague tell texts Thomas Stukeley thou Ubique XII Ulster unstressed unvoicing usage verb viii voiced Welsh Embassador write construction writers xvii xviii xxii xxiii xxiv xxvi xxvii