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... dialects of Irish . No mediæval dialect is well docu- mented : the strength of the Irish literary tradition meant that the dialect features of spoken Irish were rarely recorded in written texts ; the rhymes and assonances of bardic ...
... dialects of Irish . No mediæval dialect is well docu- mented : the strength of the Irish literary tradition meant that the dialect features of spoken Irish were rarely recorded in written texts ; the rhymes and assonances of bardic ...
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... dialects [ Wright ( 1905 ) §68 ] . In Ireland , lowering is characteristic of Ulster dialects [ Adams ( 1948 ) 16 ] , and is no doubt to be associated with the similar lowering in Scotland . Some Ulster dialects have marked lowering to ...
... dialects [ Wright ( 1905 ) §68 ] . In Ireland , lowering is characteristic of Ulster dialects [ Adams ( 1948 ) 16 ] , and is no doubt to be associated with the similar lowering in Scotland . Some Ulster dialects have marked lowering to ...
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... dialects [ Wright ( 1905 ) 8420 ( 1 ) ] , and is a common vulgarism in the speech of the illiterate [ NED s.v. them 5 ] . The form dis ' these ' ( iv 31 , xx 48 & c . ) might represent a phonological development ( §59 ) , but this for ...
... dialects [ Wright ( 1905 ) 8420 ( 1 ) ] , and is a common vulgarism in the speech of the illiterate [ NED s.v. them 5 ] . The form dis ' these ' ( iv 31 , xx 48 & c . ) might represent a phonological development ( §59 ) , but this for ...
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THE HISTORICAL BACKGROUND | 9 |
DESCRIPTION OF THE TEXTS TEXTS | 31 |
Captain Thomas Stukeley 15961605 | 77 |
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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