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... kind father for you . And what breakfast do you take in the country ? B. Why , sometimes sowins , and sometimes stirabout , and in summer we have the best frawhawns in all the county . A. What kind of a man is your neighbor Squire Dolt ...
... kind father for you . And what breakfast do you take in the country ? B. Why , sometimes sowins , and sometimes stirabout , and in summer we have the best frawhawns in all the county . A. What kind of a man is your neighbor Squire Dolt ...
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... kind , not found after 1630 , is Christ save me ( vii 25 & c ) with its variants so Christ save me ( iii 43 & c ... kind of oath consists of a mere ejaculation . The most popular ejaculation is faith ! or ' faith ! The earlier texts ...
... kind , not found after 1630 , is Christ save me ( vii 25 & c ) with its variants so Christ save me ( iii 43 & c ... kind of oath consists of a mere ejaculation . The most popular ejaculation is faith ! or ' faith ! The earlier texts ...
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... kind of health does he enjoy ? ' , and the meaning is quite different from that of the English get one's health ' recover one's health ' [ NED s.v. get 12 ] . The idiom it is kind father for you ( xxvi 19 ) literally translates Ir . is ...
... kind of health does he enjoy ? ' , and the meaning is quite different from that of the English get one's health ' recover one's health ' [ NED s.v. get 12 ] . The idiom it is kind father for you ( xxvi 19 ) literally translates Ir . is ...
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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