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... vowel phonemes / i e æ pau / . ε : §27 . The history of the seven ME long vowels is more compli- cated . Late Middle ... vowel phonemes / i : : a : : u : / . The earliest seventeenth - century change was that of ME ā to / æ : / . In the ...
... vowel phonemes / i e æ pau / . ε : §27 . The history of the seven ME long vowels is more compli- cated . Late Middle ... vowel phonemes / i : : a : : u : / . The earliest seventeenth - century change was that of ME ā to / æ : / . In the ...
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... vowels are unlikely to be very significant , since in informal speech the majority of ME unstressed vowels had been reduced to / ǝ / ; unskilled writers there- fore often interchanged the vowel - symbols , since they were not ...
... vowels are unlikely to be very significant , since in informal speech the majority of ME unstressed vowels had been reduced to / ǝ / ; unskilled writers there- fore often interchanged the vowel - symbols , since they were not ...
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... vowel which affected the date of the change ; but the usage in Hic et Ubique apparently depends on differences in the consonant which precedes the vowel , and this plays no part in the process . We are entitled to assume ( what is in ...
... vowel which affected the date of the change ; but the usage in Hic et Ubique apparently depends on differences in the consonant which precedes the vowel , and this plays no part in the process . We are entitled to assume ( what is in ...
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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