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... usage leads to the use of sweet face as a direct vocative ( v 24 , vi 72 & c . ) . An alternative development from thy ( own ) sweet face is the use of sweet - faced as a complimentary adjective ( vi 89 ) ; the same usage occurs a ...
... usage leads to the use of sweet face as a direct vocative ( v 24 , vi 72 & c . ) . An alternative development from thy ( own ) sweet face is the use of sweet - faced as a complimentary adjective ( vi 89 ) ; the same usage occurs a ...
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... usage [ Bliss ( 1977 ) 79 ] . Finally , warrant ( xxvi 19 ) is used in a sense not found in English , ' authority by inheritance ' ; since this is one of the meanings of the Irish loanword barĂ¡nta ( s ) , Swift's usage is presumably due ...
... usage [ Bliss ( 1977 ) 79 ] . Finally , warrant ( xxvi 19 ) is used in a sense not found in English , ' authority by inheritance ' ; since this is one of the meanings of the Irish loanword barĂ¡nta ( s ) , Swift's usage is presumably due ...
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... usage with such accuracy that it seems more profitable to accept their evidence as trustworthy and to seek an explanation for it . It is worth noting that SND records an identical usage for Scotland , and quotes an instance from a ...
... usage with such accuracy that it seems more profitable to accept their evidence as trustworthy and to seek an explanation for it . It is worth noting that SND records an identical usage for Scotland , and quotes an instance from a ...
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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