Spoken English in Ireland, 1600-1740: Twenty-seven Representative Texts |
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... pronunciation of one generation became the conser- vative pronunciation of the next ; if , as seems likely , Hiberno- English pronunciation was very stable , features of it which would be noteworthy and therefore worth indicating at one ...
... pronunciation of one generation became the conser- vative pronunciation of the next ; if , as seems likely , Hiberno- English pronunciation was very stable , features of it which would be noteworthy and therefore worth indicating at one ...
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... pronunciation of English . Having pointed out that , as a writer on pronunciation , Sheridan suffered from " the disadvantage of being an Irishman " , Johnson embarked on an anecdote which is relevant to our purpose : When I published ...
... pronunciation of English . Having pointed out that , as a writer on pronunciation , Sheridan suffered from " the disadvantage of being an Irishman " , Johnson embarked on an anecdote which is relevant to our purpose : When I published ...
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... pronunciation as was earlier indicated by the use of ai / ay . At the beginning of the seventeenth century , ME ā was still / æ : / , so that a HE / E : / would have been closer than the StE pronunciation , and could only be represented ...
... pronunciation as was earlier indicated by the use of ai / ay . At the beginning of the seventeenth century , ME ā was still / æ : / , so that a HE / E : / would have been closer than the StE pronunciation , and could only be represented ...
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