Spoken English in Ireland, 1600-1740: Twenty-seven Representative Texts |
From inside the book
Results 1-3 of 47
Page 263
... occurs twice more in The Irish Hudibras , where it is glossed " Clowns , Inhabitants of the County of Monaghan ” ; it also occurs six times in Purgatorium Hibernicum . Apart from the fact that Monaghan was at this time a remote rural ...
... occurs twice more in The Irish Hudibras , where it is glossed " Clowns , Inhabitants of the County of Monaghan ” ; it also occurs six times in Purgatorium Hibernicum . Apart from the fact that Monaghan was at this time a remote rural ...
Page 264
... occurs only once in our texts in ( a ) rú ( i ) n ' darling ' , literally ' secret ' ( xvii 1 ) . Many common Irish endearments happen not to occur at all in our texts : thus , for instance , the frequent a mhúirnín ' darling ' , which ...
... occurs only once in our texts in ( a ) rú ( i ) n ' darling ' , literally ' secret ' ( xvii 1 ) . Many common Irish endearments happen not to occur at all in our texts : thus , for instance , the frequent a mhúirnín ' darling ' , which ...
Page 299
... occurs in less than a third of our texts , and it is interesting to examine which these are . If we leave aside the anomalous variants discussed in §196 , the construction is found in eight texts . It is particularly common in the two ...
... occurs in less than a third of our texts , and it is interesting to examine which these are . If we leave aside the anomalous variants discussed in §196 , the construction is found in eight texts . It is particularly common in the two ...
Contents
THE HISTORICAL BACKGROUND | 9 |
DESCRIPTION OF THE TEXTS TEXTS | 31 |
Captain Thomas Stukeley 15961605 | 77 |
Copyright | |
47 other sections not shown
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
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