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Page 168
... dear ; I am an Irishman . Sconce . An Irishman ! Sir , I should not suspect that ; you have not the least bit of the brogue about you . Capt . Brogue ! No , my dear ; I always wear shoes , only now and then when I have boots on . Enter ...
... dear ; I am an Irishman . Sconce . An Irishman ! Sir , I should not suspect that ; you have not the least bit of the brogue about you . Capt . Brogue ! No , my dear ; I always wear shoes , only now and then when I have boots on . Enter ...
Page 169
... dear , there was a great noise above ; I run up to see what was the matter.— Oh hone , my dear , in one minute's time there wasn't a sheet or blanket but phat was haul'd up to the top of the house - Oh , kingrann , says I , turn her ...
... dear , there was a great noise above ; I run up to see what was the matter.— Oh hone , my dear , in one minute's time there wasn't a sheet or blanket but phat was haul'd up to the top of the house - Oh , kingrann , says I , turn her ...
Page 265
... Dear - Joy " ( for Teague see below , §143 ) . Dear Joy is given a prominent place on the title- page of Bog - Witticisms ( p . 52 ) . In spite of its popularity , the phrase does not appear in any of our texts after 1700 , though there ...
... Dear - Joy " ( for Teague see below , §143 ) . Dear Joy is given a prominent place on the title- page of Bog - Witticisms ( p . 52 ) . In spite of its popularity , the phrase does not appear in any of our texts after 1700 , though there ...
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