English as we speak it in Ireland
English as we speak it in Ireland
[edit]By Patrick Weston Joyce
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[edit]- Preface
- I. Sources of Anglo-Irish Dialect
- II. Affirming, Assenting, and Saluting
- III. Asserting by Negative of Opposite
- IV. Idioms Derived from the Irish Language
- V. The Devil and his 'Territory
- VI. Swearing
- VII. Grammar and Pronunciation
- VIII. Proverbs
- IX. Exaggeration and Redundancy
- X. Comparisons
- XI. The Memory of History and of Old Customs
- XII. A Variety of Phrases
- XIII. Vocabulary and Index
- Alphabetical List of Persons who sent Collections of Dialectical Words and Phrases
This work was published before January 1, 1931, and is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago.
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