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... fact than any Gaelic he had ever heard in Scotland . Carlingford Lough divides Co. Louth from Co. Down , and there- fore marks the boundary between the modern provinces of Leinster and Ulster ; it lies in the heart of the coastal strip ...
... fact than any Gaelic he had ever heard in Scotland . Carlingford Lough divides Co. Louth from Co. Down , and there- fore marks the boundary between the modern provinces of Leinster and Ulster ; it lies in the heart of the coastal strip ...
Page 247
... fact very difficult for Irish - speakers to pronounce / z 3 / , since all they have to do is to apply voicing to the phonemes / s S / which they already possess ; and in fact the inventory of consonant phonemes in present - day Hiberno ...
... fact very difficult for Irish - speakers to pronounce / z 3 / , since all they have to do is to apply voicing to the phonemes / s S / which they already possess ; and in fact the inventory of consonant phonemes in present - day Hiberno ...
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... fact this spelling is used only before front vowels . It seems impossible to resolve this conflict of evidence in ... fact that many of our texts use the spelling sh for / s / even in the neighbourhood of back vowels : one possible ...
... fact this spelling is used only before front vowels . It seems impossible to resolve this conflict of evidence in ... fact that many of our texts use the spelling sh for / s / even in the neighbourhood of back vowels : one possible ...
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