Spoken English in Ireland, 1600-1740: Twenty-seven Representative Texts |
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... normal in present - day Hiberno- English . There are a few instances in our texts : shuttene ' shutting ' ( i 37 ) , coggin ' cogging ' ( vii 137 ) , housh - kepin ' house - keeping ' ( xv 44 ) , livein ' living ' ( xv 44 ) , stockins ...
... normal in present - day Hiberno- English . There are a few instances in our texts : shuttene ' shutting ' ( i 37 ) , coggin ' cogging ' ( vii 137 ) , housh - kepin ' house - keeping ' ( xv 44 ) , livein ' living ' ( xv 44 ) , stockins ...
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... normal spelling in our texts for English / w / is v ; the spelling ƒ presumably indicates unvoicing of / w / , just as it indicates unvoicing of / v / . Nearly all the instances of f for / w / are to be found in Ireland Preserved ( XX ) ...
... normal spelling in our texts for English / w / is v ; the spelling ƒ presumably indicates unvoicing of / w / , just as it indicates unvoicing of / v / . Nearly all the instances of f for / w / are to be found in Ireland Preserved ( XX ) ...
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... normal tenses , even when the concept of continuing action ( the normal implication of the " progressive " tenses ) is lacking . In some of our texts we do indeed find such formations . Many of the instances are complicated by other ...
... normal tenses , even when the concept of continuing action ( the normal implication of the " progressive " tenses ) is lacking . In some of our texts we do indeed find such formations . Many of the instances are complicated by other ...
Contents
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